Just because my personal life may not be in shambles any more it doesn't mean anything has been solved. A ring doesn't solve problems. I think I'm st…

- Marissa Nadler

I identify first and foremost as a fine artist. Even the way that I put words together; this could be called painterly and the combinations don't alw…

- Marissa Nadler

I think when you're drinking you don't have the clarity to think about things. It's not easy to talk about obviously but I think quitting drinking wa…

- Marissa Nadler

For the first records I really never thought about anything other than the song itself. I thought that this was what the job of a songwriter was. I w…

- Marissa Nadler

I started drinking in my late teen years and continued through college and into the early years of my career. I had a lot of missed opportunities bec…

- Marissa Nadler

I do find it easy to write songs about heartbreak; it comes really naturally to me. It was a little bit more difficult for me to break my mould and t…

- Marissa Nadler

I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact that songwr…

- Marissa Nadler

I was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it very seriously. I really wanted to be a master pa…

- Marissa Nadler