“One of the amazing things about pop is that it's there to make people feel confident and empowered.” Quote by Shura
“Your debut record, in terms of lyrical content, can be about the last couple of years of your life obviously, but your first record into the world is also about everything else that you've ever experienced in your life until that moment.” WorldMomentsTermCoupleLyrical Author:Shura
“A recording of a moment in time, where I was physically there, and it's now in a song for all eternity, in a way. It's really weird. I had written the song, but I'm also physically there in a way I'm physically inside the song, because I've recorded something that's in there.” MomentsSongEternityReally Weird Author:Shura
“I really want to continue what I've already started with found sounds, but start borrowing from my past as well, so that it really spans me growing up.” PastGrowing UpMy PastBorrowing Author:Shura
“It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever it is, but you have to have a sensibility of how something would flow either way.” DifferentSongVersesSensibilityChorus Author:Shura
“You know, the biggest indicator of where you live is your income. If you live in this suburb you make this much money, and if you live in that suburb, you make that much money, and if you don't have any money you live where you're allowed to live.” Author:Dan Chaon
“There are all kinds of strange threads in American culture, and places where sympathy is extended and places where it isn't, and places where outrage is extended and places where it's not. It's this constantly shifting barrel of eels.” KindCultureStrangeAll KindsAmerican Culture Author:Dan Chaon
“The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular vision on film and how much more control I would have if I were writing novels.” WritingFilmRealizingVisionNovel Author:Dan Chaon
“I think at a certain point the book develops a certain weight, or pressure. You've been pushing the rock up the hill for a long time and then it starts to roll and things do start to come together in the last two thirds.” ThinkingLongBookTogetherHills Author:Dan Chaon
“I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel like the stuff that I'm fascinated by is the stuff that's part of the public imagination of what horror is. The bleakness is a different issue. I think that just stems from my personality. I wish that I offered a little more glimmer of hope sometimes.” ThinkingWritingDifferentSometimesWishImaginationPersonalityHorrorNot InterestedStem Author:Dan Chaon
“I've always been a horror movie fan, since I was a kid. And I was also a really scared kid. I was easily scared of the dark. One of the ways I would try and get away from my fear of the dark was to pretend like the monsters were my friends.” TryingKidsDarkHorrorScaredGet Away Author:Dan Chaon
