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“When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to write about what's most prevalent in my mind.”

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Nicole Atkins

Nicole Atkins, born on October 1, 1978, is a renowned figure in an unknown field. Her personal history and achievements are not well-documented. more

“Those situations were just taking over my entire life. It was fun to write in a way, because it helped me take a really bad situation and a really sad situation and make beautiful songs out of them. When I got half of the song written it was like, "Oh, this is great." It was like the one thing that was making me happy again.”

Writing Beautiful Song Fun Situation Really Sad Happy Again

Author:Nicole Atkins

“A lot of love records or breakup records, a lot of the songs can tend to be on the blame side and the bitter side. And this was good for me, writing, because it made me feel like I was forcing myself to be more mature and grow up a little bit. It's not putting the blame on anybody, it's accepting responsibility just as much as the other person.”

Writing Song Responsibility Accepting Growing Up Blame Bitter Breakup Mature Accepting Responsibility

Author:Nicole Atkins

“Even with Neptune City, I feel like if you strip down all the arrangements, I feel like each of my songs is always going to be, at its core, either a country song or a blues song.”

Country Song

Author:Nicole Atkins

“I went to college in North Carolina, and that's how I learned how to play music. I learned how to play guitar when I was 12, and I was always in bands, but the first time I ever started writing my own music was being surrounded by a lot of songwriter friends in North Carolina.”

Writing College First Time

Author:Nicole Atkins

“With Neptune City, I could have been singing about anybody's life that grew up where I did. The town I live in it isn't that magical, but when you're growing up, you think that everything is so important.”

Thinking Important Growing Up Singing

Author:Nicole Atkins

“I feel like I've been doing performing my entire life. I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten. I didn't have one of those creepy stage moms that made me do stuff. I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.”

Age Mom Singing Performing Creepy

Author:Alex Winston

“I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.”

Kids Girl College Music Is Going To College

Author:Alex Winston

“I tried to take a few community college classes, but it got in the way of music, so I stopped. I had real life college and traveling on the road college. It's like a segue into adulthood, like living on your own for the first time.”

Real Community College First Time Real Life Adulthood Community College

Author:Alex Winston

“I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.”

Moving Adulthood

Author:Alex Winston

“I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. It was really me just mimicking. That's one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to do that anymore.”

Thinking Reason Get Away Just Listen

Author:Alex Winston

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