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 think there was a real lane built for indie bands during the time when Chairlift came up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So, anyway, I think the format of love songs for me stopped becoming about people and started becoming about life.
I want to keep different options for different futures open all the time.
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.
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.
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.
With each project I'm always pushing for clarity.
Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.
My first concert was Third Eye Blind.
