Neko Case Quotes

We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean?

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.

Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

I like to think that I'm not old yet.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.

Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.

The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.

I want the recording process to be a time in my life that I will remember.

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

What drug will keep night from coming?

Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm, kind of like a Faustian thing, I think...

I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief!

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.

I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

I like driving. I'm a real sucker for driving across North America - I never get sick of it, ever.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.

It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you.

I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently.