142 Quotes by Feist

'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?

I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.

Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.

When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.