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It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.


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CAT POWER I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.
CAT POWER I need to be able to face things.
CAT POWER I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when ...
CAT POWER Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I jus...
CAT POWER There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I ...
CAT POWER People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
CAT POWER We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying ...
CAT POWER For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some...
CAT POWER After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn&#...
CAT POWER Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up l...
CAT POWER I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird...
WALLACE STEVENS After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
WALLACE STEVENS