Neko Case
Neko Case
Neko Richelle Case is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her solo career and her contributions as a member of the Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 September 1970
CityAlexandria, VA
CountryUnited States of America
bands closest family personal road studio time
My personal time is the same as my road time and my studio time. Personal time is working and touring. All my closest friends and family are already in the bands that I'm around, anyway.
love spend time
I love touring, but it's because I don't go for very long at one time. If I don't spend enough time with my dog, I get pretty crabby.
animals bed fairy family gets growing slept tales treated
Growing up, my family was very, very into animals. Animals were treated like other people; they slept in the bed with you. I come from an agrarian background. That's how my family's fairy tales are structured, where animals have a lot of power. It gets into people's psyche.
anybody eastern knows
If anybody knows about tragedy, it's Eastern Europeans.
anybody country mind sounds
I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.
taken picture-taken
I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.
jobs people musician
I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.
writing thinking important
I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently.
song kids writing
Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.
thinking animal empathy
I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.
moving giving people
When you're making records, you develop, and so you hear the things you want to move away from. It stings a little, but you know, you gotta own it too. You've got to just go, "You know, I wasn't afraid to learn in front of people, so I give myself a little credit for not being afraid of anything."
depression skills people
There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it.
thinking feelings calm
I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.
song dog real
I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.