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My stepfather is a baron. He has a castle in Belgium that's been in his family for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's not fancy; it's really sort of brimstone and dark. It's got a moat and a drawbridge.
— Caroline Polachek
I was born in New York, but I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut - that's where I went to school. I remember begging my way into choir in the 3rd grade, because you're not supposed to get in until 4th grade.
— Caroline Polachek
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.
— Caroline Polachek
I went to art school, and I studied drawing and video art, and I've always approached music so visually as a result that I found it really difficult in the past to kind of hand off music to another director, 'cause it just ends up being this kind of mid-zone where it's nobody's vision, really.
— Caroline Polachek
My mom wasn't thrilled about me being in a band, because she very correctly said she couldn't see any sort of stability in it.
— Caroline Polachek
Before I play a show, I put on lavender oil - it's sort of a ritual.
— Caroline Polachek
But I studied art in Belgium from the age of 17 to 18, and I learned French when I was there. Very reluctantly so. I didn't do a very good job. For the first six months I was very depressed and couldn't speak to anyone, and then it kinda hits you.
— Caroline Polachek
We are always in a state of flux, and taking risks is important.
— Caroline Polachek
I really like when the lyrics in the music have an interesting relationship between one another - where they contrast each other.
— Caroline Polachek
My parents got divorced when I was really young and I was a very hyperactive kid, so both parents independently would play Enya at the house to calm me down and soothe me as a kid.
— Caroline Polachek
I've definitely been in that situation many times - staying in a relationship longer than I should. I think there's so much of your identity that comes from a relationship.
— Caroline Polachek
I would enjoy seeing anyone else sing 'Caroline Shut Up.' That would be interesting. I would give that one away, actually, which is funny, even though it's very personal.
— Caroline Polachek
I remember thinking that writing love songs was stupid and cliche, and that my job was to not write love songs, because there are enough of them.
— Caroline Polachek
Well, I'm just a really sentimental person, and I just get leveled by things so easily, like from films, to personal interactions, to memories, to music.
— Caroline Polachek
My first concert was Third Eye Blind.
— Caroline Polachek
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.
— Caroline Polachek
Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.
— Caroline Polachek
I want to keep different options for different futures open all the time.
— Caroline Polachek
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.
— Caroline Polachek
With each project I'm always pushing for clarity.
— Caroline Polachek
So, anyway, I think the format of love songs for me stopped becoming about people and started becoming about life.
— Caroline Polachek
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.
— Caroline Polachek
I guess I've gotten older and more sentimental, and I've realized that the love song is just the modern equivalent of a devotional.
— Caroline Polachek
I think there was a real lane built for indie bands during the time when Chairlift came up.
— Caroline Polachek
I was actually really stunned that my label suggested 'Door' as the single to lead with, as it's such a long and winding song.
— Caroline Polachek
Panging is the kind of sharp pain you feel inside when you're reminded of some kind of unattended need or something that you've neglected.
— Caroline Polachek
And a pang is ultimately private. It's not a thing that gets broadcast to the world; it's a kind of internal alarm that sounds when something has to change and it has to change fast.
— Caroline Polachek
I kind of think that's the best way to operate; even when I'm in sessions writing with other artists, I'm always pulling from the kind of emotions that are the most raw in my own life and offering them up in the studio.
— Caroline Polachek
When I was in middle school, I loved Egyptian mythology.
— Caroline Polachek
I'm a horribly chronic 'get half way through the book and start a new one' person.
— Caroline Polachek
If I'm receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting someone up for a casual favor out of the blue who you've never met before. I really believe in manners.
— Caroline Polachek
I actually don't live anywhere. I live on the road.
— Caroline Polachek
In New York, if you spend a few hours doing nothing, you feel like the whole world passed you by.
— Caroline Polachek
I woke up in London one morning in the middle of an adrenaline surge, and I was just lying there - the sun was coming up - trying to think of the best way to describe this feeling, and 'pang' was the only word I could really use to describe it.
— Caroline Polachek
Everything I've done that I'm proud of is everything I've been the most hands-on with, so I'm just following that, really.
— Caroline Polachek
I've probably listened to 'Try Me' by DeJ Loaf 500 times. It's a little slower than your typical strut BPM, but it still works.
— Caroline Polachek
If you're walking through the Union Square subway station - New Yorkers know it's obnoxious and crowded, and in the summer it's too hot - there are always amazing musicians playing, and sometimes there are multiple, different musicians set up in there.
— Caroline Polachek
You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.
— Caroline Polachek
One of the goals we had when making 'Moth' was to have the vocals sound less treated and less processed than we'd ever had before, to just let them be exposed and very audible.
— Caroline Polachek
Arcadia' was started and finished at the Medici villa in Rome.
— Caroline Polachek
I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool.
— Caroline Polachek
Many of the elements associated with storybook mythology and gothic aesthetics are actually not expressive.
— Caroline Polachek
One of my biggest Disney influences in terms of world-building on this record was a background painter named Eyvind Earle, who was working in the '50s. He would make hyper-modern shapes that were sharp retellings of pastoral themes.
— Caroline Polachek
Music feels so environmental to me, especially the process of working with synths or mixing. I started thinking about music as a psychological landscape as well. It's a landscape of the mind.
— Caroline Polachek
Being a musician, there aren't that many ways for me to consciously use a more strategy, math-based part of my brain.
— Caroline Polachek
I just started studying opera - very, very much as hobby - and for some reason I've been gravitating toward French composers, like a lot of Debussy and Faure. I find it a really sinuous and spooky language to sing in.
— Caroline Polachek
Well working by yourself, especially when no one knows about it, is totally liberating because it's very impulse-driven. You work when you want to work. You work when you can work. No deadlines. No conversation. No compromise. No help.
— Caroline Polachek
But I never imagined that I could ever have a career in music. I always thought it was like a mafia, that you had to sell your soul and know the right people and be in the right place.
— Caroline Polachek
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.
— Caroline Polachek
I have an opera coach who I went to as a teenager, when I was 15 and 16 years old. When I went to college, I forgot about it.
— Caroline Polachek
The men's dance style in dancehall is territorial, but it's also flirtatious and it's also showing off strength by way of smooth movement that you can only do if you're really strong. It has so much attitude.
— Caroline Polachek
As soon as we wrote the beat for 'Romeo,' I knew it was a running song. I was thinking about it in terms of the body. What do you want to do? It's not a song you want to dance to.
— Caroline Polachek
I was into music from a very early age, and I was also - I don't really talk about this that much - really into horses. I learned a lot about rhythm and about voice from that.
— Caroline Polachek
Growing up, I was so compelled by artists whose looks were inseparable from their music. Bjork was my hero.
— Caroline Polachek
I almost gave up on 'Door' so many times. I couldn't crack it. It started out as a simple song with just a chorus-verse-chorus. I felt like it needed to transform more.
— Caroline Polachek
I think that's a big trope in pop music: the blaze-of-glory breakup. It's not one that I particularly identify with, but it's definitely possible.
— Caroline Polachek
I used to obsessively draw. I was really good at it.
— Caroline Polachek
Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline as it is a vocal. But it is a single, linear, monophonic thing. Something you could hum or whistle.
— Caroline Polachek
But synthesizer music has been accepted as emotional for long enough that it isn't a huge reach, conceptually, to think of a fake voice as 'emotional', especially since there's a human composing it.
— Caroline Polachek
I would love to live in Japan again, but would need to really commit to learning the language before doing it. Both my parents speak Japanese fluently, so I suppose it would feel like a tradition.
— Caroline Polachek
'Ashes Of Love' has much more hot-blooded vocal than what PC Music is known for, and a much harder production than what I usually do, so I was fully prepared for people to hate it.
— Caroline Polachek
I think as I get older, I'm just going to start making smooth, new age music - no joke.
— Caroline Polachek
But I wanted the karaoke-style lyrics in our music videos for two reasons: first, cause nobody has lyric booklets anymore, and when I was growing up, lyric booklets were like little bibles. I want people to be able to access our lyrics without having to go to some gnarly website with banner ads.
— Caroline Polachek
If you want to know what the DJ is playing, just ask. You don't have the right to stick your head in front of my screen as if you're an expert leaning over the shoulder of the apprentice.
— Caroline Polachek
Driving in Chicago wins over New York; people are so fast. It's almost like there's a subliminal street racing culture here. They drive like comic book characters.
— Caroline Polachek
I like listening to ambient music, especially in very scenic places because I think it allows for the most freedom of thought.
— Caroline Polachek
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