A 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.
St. VincentI've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at Terence McKenna interviews.
St. VincentNo matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.
St. VincentThe first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lordโs own words, that of renouncing himself - that is, his own senses, his own passions, his own will, his own judgement, and all the movements of nature, making to God a sacrifice of all these things, and of all their acts, which are surely sacrifices very acceptable to the Lord. And we must never grow weary of this; for if anyone having, so to speak, one foot already in Heaven, should abandon this exercise, when the time should come for him to put the other there, he would run much risk of being lost.
St. Vincent