All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.
St. VincentA song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.
St. VincentI've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
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