I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.
FeistI guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.
FeistAny kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.
FeistI think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.
FeistMusic is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene its not one-on-one, its a one-on-12. Its very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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