Emily Haines Quotes
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I'm a chick for sure.
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I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.
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Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.
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Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.
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You don't want to be conscious of everything.
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I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.
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Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.
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I like the idea that you would participate in mainstream culture, especially for young girls and young kids who are looking for an alternative. It's not that I'm superior, but I know that my heart is in it more than people who get into music for other reasons.
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Believe in the power of songs.
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Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.
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Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.
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I always felt like I had to leave Canada, which I think is a common perspective - feeling as if you have to leave because otherwise you'll be too soft, and that objective reality exists in America. And I'm starting to feel like that doesn't have to be the case.
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That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.
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It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.
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I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.
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It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.
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The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.
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I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.
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I think a sexual energy is a positive energy.
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I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.
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We don't have T-shirts with my face, but there I can see the beginnings, especially young girls seeing me as sort of a icon in that way. And in that regard I'm more than happy to step in.
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You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.
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[When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.
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I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path.
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I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is that... one band would be successful according to a certain approach, and then every other band in the label gets sent down the same tube.
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Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.
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The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.
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I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?
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I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?
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The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.
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