Quotes from Annie E. Clark

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression.

I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.

Checking voicemail is like, "When's the other shoe going to drop?" I'm always afraid it's going to be terrible news I don't want to hear.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.