Quotes from St. Vincent

I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.

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.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?

Go to the poor there you will find God.

Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community binds it indissolubly to God.

No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.

In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.

Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.

Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.

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 a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

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

I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.

My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.

The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time.

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.