Annie E. Clark Quotes

I think anything that you can’t poke fun at is a little too precious.

I know that, physically, I’m a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that’s got to come out somehow. I’m lucky that I get to play music, and that it’s not going to come out in some totally destructive way.

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It’s not the full spectrum. It’s never going to sound as good as a record.

I 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.

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it’s scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

I 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.

I’m a bit of a vagabond – a person who loses time and space because you don’t know where you are.

There’s always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.

I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don’t have space for a vinyl collection.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it’s difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

I don’t even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn’t need to be gendered and stratified, that’s so boring.

CDs 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.