Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies. Feist More Quotes by Feist More Quotes From Feist Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible. Feist would-be writing trying 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 its not one-on-one, its a one-on-12. Its very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends. Feist healthy broken people Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I havent written many like that. Feist mind littles trying Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years. Feist two years thinking If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile. Feist wall stills fall There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together. Feist pieces knowing together Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesnt feel familiar any more. Feist landscape aliens interesting I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens. Feist lenses photograph want For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker. Feist photographer watches people I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case. Feist isolation people thinking I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant. It makes you feel so minute. The only thing as big as that are your thoughts about it, which can expand exponentially while your physical self is just trapped. It's a pretty awesome feeling, in the original sense of the word. Feist observing feelings beautiful I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years. Feist two past years But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage. Feist adaptation variables environment You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing. Feist pleasure simple roots Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal. Feist meals naps world When I stopped touring, it was like trying to stop a bullet train or a giant lead ball falling from a 100 stories up - it's momentum and it doesn't just stop. I drew a line in the calendar and made it a brick wall and just stopped dead. There was no other way. It would've taken another 100 years to slow down slowly. I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time. Feist wall taken fall I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots. Feist growing-up lines cities When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks. Feist confused cities interesting I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning storms, and they would knock the electricity out. We had this oil lantern that had been in my grandfather's homestead at the turn of the century, before there even was electricity. He'd bring it down off the top shelf, and we'd always play cards. Feist oil play kids Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors. Feist spoons flavor levels
