"I feel like it's where I can feel absolutely the most free that I ever feel in my life. Being fully present and in the moment is when I'm on stage... The part of me that is locked away, she comes out and she takes it in a direction that is completely different." - Liz Cooper
Kelly McCartney
"We would drive around in my parents' GMC Savannah van and listen to the CD of 'Stand by Me.' ...When I think of bubblegum '50s pop, just bright, golden days when everyone was optimistic, I think of late '90s San Francisco as a very happy, golden time." - Patton Magee
Kelly McCartney
"The older I get the more fearful I become, which you think would be the opposite. I spent the first part of my life feeling that I was indestructible and life was going to keep working out for me. I think part of 2020...was this felt sense that things can go horribly, horribly wrong." - Jenn Wasner
Kelly McCartney
"The one that really, forever, sticks with me is meeting Elliott Smith. It was '95 or '96. Jon Brion...had been introduced to Elliott and went out and filled a shopping bag with Elliott Smith albums and distributed them to his friends. I was fortunate that I was among them." - Grant-Lee Phillips
Kelly McCartney
"I knew that I was going to have to get out what was bothering me, so that part was clear. I didn't know what things were going to sound like, but I knew what I wanted them to feel like. ... One of the things that stuck out the whole time was me trying to find joy." - Brandee Younger
Kelly McCartney
"I got introduced to electronic music at a very formative age, I feel like. The same with folk music. That was more my roots, but when I was getting more confident as a songwriter, I got introduced to electronic music, so I was just starting to play around with that." - Ásgeir
Kelly McCartney
"I tend to not be drawn to rhyming poems because it plays into the sing-songy part of my brain. So I really enjoy poets like Mary [Oliver] that create their own rhythm in other ways. And it's not usually in that classic structure, but in the way ideas build and form." - Caroline Spence
Kelly McCartney