Erin McKeown Quotes
As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.
I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.
I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.
Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life.
It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.
The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.
So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.
I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.
I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!
I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.
I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.
When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.
I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.
My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less about what people will think of what I made. And I am not drunk.
