142 Quotes by Feist

Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!

As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'