When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It’s almost like casting spells. I don’t mean necessarily in the flighty, ‘I’m going to go buy a cloak with a hood now’ way. Feist Read Quote
The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on ‘Sea Lion’ and that’s what I tried to make happen for ‘Metals,’ which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song. Feist Read Quote
As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future… A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you. Feist Read Quote
Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it’s not one-on-one, it’s a one-on-12. It’s very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends. Feist Read Quote
Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you’re playing a show and there’s a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise – people talking or something – I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them. Feist Read Quote
I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don’t think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play. Feist Read Quote
There have been times I’ve planted stuff in songs where four years later I’ll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind… and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I’ll hear a line from a different vantage point and it’ll change its meaning. It’s something I wrote but it changed because I did. Feist Read Quote
When I wrote ‘Mushaboom’, I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first. Feist Read Quote
Well, there’s just some universal truths in a way that I’ve just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there’s these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other. Feist Read Quote
