66 Quotes by Caroline Polachek

Growing up, I was so compelled by artists whose looks were inseparable from their music. Bjork was my hero.

Low' was probably the album that influenced me more than any other, because of how it combined humor and impressive, glamorous, driving energy with this totally surreal soundscape production.

I guess this song isn't about anything necessarily sad, but it makes me sad just because it makes me think about how inaccessible the past is, but it's called 'Boy Child' by Scott Walker.

I think women are taught in the music industry that once you're 35, you've expired, and I'm here to prove that factually incorrect.

I want to keep different options for different futures open all the time.

A lot of the music comes out of that conflict of wanting this other thing and feeling guilty about wanting it, and then it guiding me somewhere despite my kicking and screaming.

With each project I'm always pushing for clarity.

So, anyway, I think the format of love songs for me stopped becoming about people and started becoming about life.

When I came up in a band - not just in a band, but a kind of underground DIY community - there was such a clear cut distinction between what pop was and what not pop was in very simplistic terms.