Well, whenever I visit New York it feels pretty romantic, so I sometimes think about coming back here. But then I wonder if it’s just ’cause I’m visiting that it feels so good. But also, Minnesota. I could imagine myself finding a place in Minneapolis. Adrianne Lenker Read Quote
I’m attracted to wilderness in any sense. Which is why I’m attracted to New York in a way, because I feel like it’s a wilderness of people and textures. Just like, there’s so much life and richness here. And you can get lost in it. Adrianne Lenker Read Quote
I grew up in the suburbs, sometimes country-like suburbs because we moved around, but mostly suburbs. Adrianne Lenker Read Quote
Mostly I’ve just been stealing little moments for myself in order to write – in the bathroom at a hotel, or just slipping away for a half an hour. Amidst all of the touring, life has been happening. Adrianne Lenker Read Quote
There’s something special in music about the repetition of playing something where it becomes a home and a fortress and a space that you inhabit, like maybe we could move this little thing here, or rearrange the furniture. You’re so acquainted with every part of it. Adrianne Lenker Read Quote
I always said I got my music from my dad, but my mom had these cassettes – Bjoerk and the Cocteau Twins and the Talking Heads. That was her music, and she would just get so wild and free when she listened to it. Adrianne Lenker Read Quote
There’s a natural separation that kids have to go through with their parents, but then when you put that on top of actually having a career, it gets even more painful. Adrianne Lenker Read Quote
So we’re in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and… basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go. Adrianne Lenker Read Quote
I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art form, and that they all can happen simultaneously but at different paces. Adrianne Lenker Read Quote
When an audience takes to a song and it becomes older, in a way it changes it entirely. And then the journey just begins. Adrianne Lenker Read Quote
