“Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.” Quote by Kareem Mortimer
“I was raised to be modest to the point of fanaticism. In my family, we don't talk about ourselves to each other. Vanity is considered the worst possible sin. I've gotten better about having to describe things. If you're going to make a record and people are going to write about you, it's your responsibility to answer questions. It's validating - I'm just very clumsy.” PeopleWritingSinResponsibilityWorstMy FamilyModestFanaticism Author:Neko Case
“I have a hard time taking myself seriously. My band the New Pornographers doesn't take me seriously, which is why I love them. We can't stand up there and pretend. What we're doing is really important to me and it's my job and I love it, but I can't just stand there unflinchingly noble in front of the audience.” ImportantAudienceHard Times Author:Neko Case
“A live show is one of the last holdouts of a thing that makes you feel a part of a community, where you'll go and maybe meet your future wife or boyfriend, or you're taking your sister to her first show. These are the things that you remember later in your life.” RememberCommunityWifeOur Future Author:Neko Case
“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.” ArtSongDifficultSongwritingTouching Author:Neko Case
“The only ones that stand out to me are people like Jonathan Richman or Robyn Hitchcock, who can make you totally cry while their music is so funny and they're hilarious. They know they're great but they also don't think they're better than you and they really invite you into their show.” PeopleThinkingCryMusic IsStanding Out Author:Neko Case
“I'm pretty self-conscious, so I tend to work in a way where I say what I need to say and get out rather than revisit things. It's kind of a collage style. I realized that it had more emotional weight that way. I'll always be in the developmental stages as far as being a songwriter.” KindStyleEmotionalI Realized Author:Neko Case
“I once asked a studio guy in Toronto, "How many people don't use auto tune?" and he said, "You and Nelly Furtado are the only two people who've never used it in here." Even though I'm not into Nelly Furtado, it kind of made me respect her. It's cool that she has some integrity.” PeopleKindGuyIntegrity Author:Neko Case
“When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.” MayChildrenSchoolParentWindClothesShotsImportanceLegacyRelativeHouseholdMultipleSiblingAll The BestBest FoodBest School Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“There are things about the production I'm not crazy about though. People mix records to be heard in cars and to have the bass incredibly loud so the vocals have to fight with everything so there's no dynamic left, and that's kind of a bummer. That may not be my taste but I'm not going to go, "Kanye's not very good," because he's pretty badass. It's a difference in taste, like the New Pornographers and myself have different taste in production as well but it all works out in the end.” PeopleKindDifferentFightingCrazyCarVery GoodWork OutBadass Author:Neko Case
“Being in two full-time rock bands is pretty impossible. I love to tour but I have a dog and I want to see him. And, being a songwriter, you have to have experiences and do things. You can't just go on tour all the time, otherwise you get nothing to write about. It's finally at a point where the balance is perfectly right.” WritingImpossibleDogBalance Author:Neko Case