With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "Oh, you want to wear a splatter-painted, Hard Rock Cafรฉ T-shirt for seven days in a row and not brush your hair? Go for it. Be who you want to be."
Annie E. ClarkCDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.
Annie E. ClarkThe schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is.
Annie E. ClarkI do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.
Annie E. ClarkI have a phobia of checking voicemail. I watched a lot of TV as a kid, and everything is, like, you're gonna get kidnapped, or somebody's gonna die, or killer bees are going to take you out. I'm a very anxious person.
Annie E. ClarkI think every time I play, every show is different, and I think that at a certain point a song isn't about you anymore. It's about the audience, it's about how the song has worked its way into other people's lives and that kind of keeps the meaning of the song new, because you see it reflected in other people every night.
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