I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the … - Emily Haines

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The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

Emily Haines

I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?

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I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground.

Art, Intellectual, Mythology, Read, Self, Underground

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

Architecture, Built, Kind, Song

Of course there are influences, of course there are things that are inspiring, but it's weird to think that I'm trying to keep a mental inventory of them and report them clearly to whomever might ask.

Inventory, Mental, Think, Thinking, Trying

But its crazy-like ten percent a year increase of children taking @#$%& anti-depressants. Pre-schoolers are like, the most prescribed. That makes me so mad!

Children, Crazy, Like, Mad, Years

Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.

Acoustics, Ends, Ones, Produced, Song, Sounding