Caroline Polachek Quotes

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

When you meet someone, a friend, who’s living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes you think about your own life in a really critical way and feel completely disoriented.

The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn’t been making money. Labels are signing bands they trust as artistic entities, instead of cash cows. They’re signing bands because they believe that the bands have tastes beyond anything they could concoct themselves.

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn’t mean it’s done.

There’s this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio – though there’s no guarantee.

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

It’s a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it’s really about, it’s about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It’s a sort of story of our lives.

Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you’re surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People’s tastes are made of combinations of genres.

I’m gonna really enjoy bringing out the catsuit once in a while.

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It’s a tabloid, the scum of indie.

You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stacks and stacks of others? That’s how I describe music scenes in New York. That’s one of the trippiest things about living here – just how many parallel universes there are that you can be completely unaware of.