There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture. Feist More Quotes by Feist More Quotes From Feist I would try to pick the guitar up sometimes, like, "Hey, remember me?" It was like reintroducing yourself to someone who's got a grudge. Feist hey guitar trying I spent some time in France, visited Egypt and Mexico City. I hung out, biked around, planted some tomatoes. I did everything except wake up in a new town everyday. It was really boring. It's just life. Feist egypt everyday cities A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all. Feist long past years I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it. Feist wall dog thinking With music, I wasn't curious anymore. There was no dialogue. By the time I stopped, I knew it wasn't going to be gone forever, but it just wasn't the right time for me to care about that. Feist care gone forever I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever. Feist zero forever fall I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write. Feist bubbles crazy writing I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all. Feist land long years 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 calendars six-months lines I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant. Feist giants weather beautiful Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami. Feist origami assuming style You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously. Feist stories stuff character Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us? Feist grandkids imagine able I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening. Feist writing school thinking You can get anywhere on earth by falling asleep. Feist falling-asleep earth fall There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered. Feist chords bows ties Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people. Feist different tomorrow people I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything. Feist invisibility hitting keyboards You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection. Feist simplicity guitar perfection I've never been drawn to concert DVDs because they take away the part of the equation that's most important to seeing a live show: getting jostled around and feeling the energy in the room. I definitely didn't want to make one of those. Feist dvds important feelings
