Feist
Feist
Indie singer named Leslie Feist who gained critical acclaim for her albums Let it Die and The Reminder in 2004 and 2007 respectively. At the 2008 Juno Awards, she took home five awards, including Songwriter of the Year and Artist of the Year.
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth13 February 1976
CountryCanada
school writing thinking
I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.
crazy writing bubbles
I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.
writing trying would-be
Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.
writing skills way
Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.
jobs hard-work writing
Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.
writing historical-novels fantasy
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
writing ideas brilliant
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.
blunt james people rewritten sent
When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
chatter figured louder people playing slowly whose
Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
elegance good impossible moon naive notion songs sound videos visible
On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
ask backing call energy given music people side
I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
growing muscles partly respect
'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.
almost amount came pay sting
There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.