I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.
Nellie McKayI'm glad I got a record contract, because all of a sudden everything you were doing before that made you a stupid person now makes you a smart person.
Nellie McKayPrecocious and eccentric are okay. But I think that people in the arts represent something integral and kind of secretive in everybody else. So the reason people like some artists is because they're saying or doing something that they would like to do or say, but they don't have the balls or the means. People are really afraid to put their ass on the line. Just to put your face on a poster and put your name in big print and say "Come see me," that takes some cojones, you know? Ambition is nothing to be ashamed of.
Nellie McKayLove is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.
Nellie McKayI was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.
Nellie McKayI'm just kind of sick of music. I don't know what I want to do. It's not that I feel suicidal or anything, but I just want to end this life. I just want to be somebody else now. Sometimes I feel like that. You always think, "If I just cut my hair really short and dye it brown and put on a little goatee, no one would know it was me, and I could..."
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