96 Quotes by St. Vincent

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.

I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma.