66 Quotes by Caroline Polachek

Many of the elements associated with storybook mythology and gothic aesthetics are actually not expressive.

Driving in Chicago wins over New York; people are so fast. It's almost like there's a subliminal street racing culture here. They drive like comic book characters.

I was into music from a very early age, and I was also - I don't really talk about this that much - really into horses. I learned a lot about rhythm and about voice from that.

I like listening to ambient music, especially in very scenic places because I think it allows for the most freedom of thought.

I'm a horribly chronic 'get half way through the book and start a new one' person.

You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.

But I never imagined that I could ever have a career in music. I always thought it was like a mafia, that you had to sell your soul and know the right people and be in the right place.

I kind of think that's the best way to operate; even when I'm in sessions writing with other artists, I'm always pulling from the kind of emotions that are the most raw in my own life and offering them up in the studio.

My stepfather is a baron. He has a castle in Belgium that's been in his family for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's not fancy; it's really sort of brimstone and dark. It's got a moat and a drawbridge.