I went to college in North Carolina, and that's how I learned how to play music. I learned how to play guitar when I was 12, and I was always in band…

- Nicole Atkins

It was three breakups going on at the same time. It was breaking up with my band, and my boyfriend, and right after that, my record label. I was argu…

- Nicole Atkins

A lot of love records or breakup records, a lot of the songs can tend to be on the blame side and the bitter side. And this was good for me, writing,…

- Nicole Atkins

With Neptune City, I could have been singing about anybody's life that grew up where I did. The town I live in it isn't that magical, but when you're…

- Nicole Atkins

Those situations were just taking over my entire life. It was fun to write in a way, because it helped me take a really bad situation and a really sa…

- Nicole Atkins

Even with Neptune City, I feel like if you strip down all the arrangements, I feel like each of my songs is always going to be, at its core, either a…

- Nicole Atkins

When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to write about what's m…

- Nicole Atkins