Neko K Quotes & Sayings

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again. — Neko Case

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. — Neko Case

I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music. — Neko Case

I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently. — Neko Case

I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and playing her guitar and producing. She's doing it all and she's got hits on the radio. — Neko Case

I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny. — Neko Case

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind. — Neko Case

If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean? — Neko Case

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness. — Neko Case

I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief! — Neko Case

When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but I did not grow up in the South. So I'm a Southerner by accident, but a Washingtonian. — Neko Case

People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten. — Neko Case

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them. — Neko Case

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to. — Neko Case

If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love hearing them interviewed, I love the way they talk about their art. They're very self-assured, they're funny, they're inviting. I love it. — Neko Case

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage. — Neko Case

Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds. — Neko Case

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes. — Neko Case

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. — Neko Case

The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it. — Neko Case

While it is not my job to educate anyone, I understand that if I don't try, I cannot expect anyone else to understand. — Amber Neko Meador

Sounds like to have space sometimes. It's good to give yourself a variety, or you just fatigue your ear. Like if somebody sings in the same register all the time, or if it's got the same feel the whole way through, I just find I get fatigued, so it's nice to break it up. — Neko Case

It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you. — Neko Case

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. — Neko Case

I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God. — Neko Case

Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either. — Neko Case

How will you know if you found me at last 'cause I'll be the one with my heart in my lap. — Neko Case

I think if you're a lady playing a guitar, other ladies need to see you playing the guitar, and they don't need to see men come out and fix your equipment for you. It just looks incredibly pussy. So I just do it all myself. — Neko Case

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them. — Neko Case

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous. — Neko Case