Explore Quotes by Sharon Van Etten

Sometimes music should just be about you sitting on your bedroom floor, or in the back of the car, singing along stupidly. Evan Dando's music was all about that for me.

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms.

Whatever your writing is about, you're really connected with it, and you can always go back to when that was. I remember everything, and time and place are like a center for me.

I used to work at a label. I used to be a publicist. I used to be at a management company.

I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.'

There's something to writing a hook and something to writing a memorable melody. That's what I liked about musicals. Then I realized I could write my own songs, and I didn't have to sing other people's.

If I start panicking a little bit, I just talk through it with somebody.

If I make assumptions about the audience and start overthinking things, I can drive myself crazy about how the audience perceives me. I try not to do that anymore.

Most musicians are normal people who want to hang out and are really down to earth.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time.

In some ways, being on the road is like summer camp. There's a camaraderie, but I'm also learning how to be more of a leader.

I'm a total goofball.

I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.

When I first started making music, it was where I went when I couldn't express myself, when I wasn't able to connect with other people, when I couldn't talk about what I was going through.

Music is still my main thing, but I will explore anything that's interesting and challenging.

I don't like to hold back. Especially with who I am and what I do, it's all me. Everything's my name; it's what I do. It's how I feel. It's what I think.

I hit 'record' whenever I'm going through a really hard time. I don't listen to it for a couple of days, so I have some perspective. If it's too personal to share, and I feel like would alienate the listeners, then I usually don't share that stuff.

In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.

I feel like, as a female, I am maybe hyper-sensitive to feeling pushed into a corner or somebody taking a song a different way.

I think leading up to the tour is the most stressful part because you barely have any time home.