Vanessa Carlton Quotes
But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I'm definitely still wild at heart.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
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I'm just not made for that kind of live audience where you don't create a fourth wall.
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There's nothing wrong or weak about seeking a therapist. I have a therapist.
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You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.
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We sailed for more days than I knew how to count, sometimes hugging the mainland coast, sometimes passing from one island to another over the waves. The summer weather blessed us with clear skies and tame waters. We did have a couple of times when we had to put in to shore quickly to wait out a thunderstorm. I think Zeus didn’t want our quest to become too comfortable.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
