I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.
From Tift Merritt
Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically.
I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them.
As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.
I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.
My work is has always been very, very personal.
In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.
France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.
The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.
I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.
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