musician
What people don’t understand is that musicians swim backwards up the stream. You have what you like and then you want to see where it came from.
Marc Ribot interview with Bill Frisell, BOMB magazine, Issue 79, Spring 2002.
I always end up in the same place after I finish recording and touring an album: devoid of ideas, and afraid I won’t be able to write anything worthwhile again. One of the first thoughts to flicker into that void tends to be, How can I make my next work relate to what preceded it? I usually make a plan, which later reveals itself to be moot, but to which I cling for a little while, in a talismanic sense.
“Joanna Newsom,” interviewed by Roy Harper, BOMB magazine, Issue 116, Summer 2011.
I love dresses, especially good vintage from the early ’70s–Yves Saint Laurent and Ossie Clark, and anything in silk, printed crepe, or chiffon. I love polka dots, peplums, cap sleeves, tea lengths, cloth-covered buttons, high heels, and wide belts. Everything I buy has to have a waist that fits; that’s the only design element about which I’m completely inflexible.
“Joanna Newsom,” interviewed by Roy Harper, BOMB magazine, Issue 116, Summer 2011.