A biography for Sharon Van Ettenhasn’t been written yet.
“I feel like, as a female, I am maybe hyper-sensitive to feeling pushed into a corner or somebody taking a song a different way.”
“I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.”
“I only work with people that are mysteries.”
“I don't know how to get a crowd singing along. That's not what my music does.”
“In some ways, being on the road is like summer camp. There's a camaraderie, but I'm also learning how to be more of a leader.”
“Singing a song like 'Your Love Is Killing Me,' people are worried about me. My mother called me, like, 'What's going on with you? Are you alright? I thought you were doing fine.' And I'm like, 'I am doing fine. It's just, this is what I do.'”
“I'm still friends with most of my exes. There are only one or two people that I'll never talk to again.”
“People always ask me, 'Why do you only write about heartbreak?' I think I only write when I'm broken, so that's just what happens. It makes me feel better, but having some distance helps.”
“I was in musicals. and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs, I thought I wanted to be on Broadway, but it was nothing I ever really pursued.”
“When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time.”
“I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.”
“Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me.”
“My friends actually used to call me the 'Female Conor Oberst.' I got to open up with him once, and I told him about that, and he thought it was hilarious.”
“I have a lot of alter-egos: I would love to be a back-up singer for someone someday. I have an electronic side-project. I have a '90s grunge side project; I have a piano project... I have this industrial, goth-electronic song, super creepy sounding, just really dark and dreary.”
“I hit 'record' whenever I'm going through a really hard time. I don't listen to it for a couple of days, so I have some perspective. If it's too personal to share, and I feel like would alienate the listeners, then I usually don't share that stuff.”
“I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30.”
“The studio is a time when you can do anything that you want to. You have that freedom.”
“I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.”
“I definitely wouldn't consider myself a professional, but I like to dress up like one.”
“Brit Marling is very positive, very professional, very encouraging.”