Incessant creation, disciplined creativity.
“Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with a song or something and I have to go down. It's not like that it carefully, but it's somewhat incessant,” St. Vincent.
We are all creative at a certain level. Some are only when making cotorros comments in a conversation or making a Copy For a publication in social networks. Others, a few, create at the level of Annie Clarkalso known as St. Vincentthat with a notebook in the bureau of his bedroom, although “more than anything, voice notes, those help me a lot,” has made movie scripts, song lyrics and the musical arrangements that accompany them.
“I feel better when I am doing things. I feel safer when I am creating. When I don't, I get a little anxious,” she tells me when talking, she from Los Angeles. What envy to be able to clearly get emotions in this way, and to be able to verbalize what many times we feel, but we cannot express.
Sometimes it is simply sitting with paper and pen and writing and removing all the thoughts of the road. But other times thoughts have no words in the literal sense, so they take the form of music. It's like 'I can't say this in another language' and spend two hours in the synthesizer or just opening my mouth and seeing what sound it comes out. “It is not synesthesia, but almost.
His first love was rock. “I loved rock music first. It was the first music I heard and it was the one I fell in love.” Although, he left Tour With their uncles in adolescence and instructed it in the great jazz. “And of course it changes you completely. Once you listen to John Coltrane OA Duke Ellington… Once you listen to She Fitzgerald You say 'there will not be a better voice to step on the earth'. It was very formative. ”
While not listening to jazz always, (we even joke about that it is not something that one listens in the background, but requires paying attention to really enjoy it), yes “I listen a lot to Nina Simonewhich has a much more classic dye Duke Ellingtonbecause as he once said Stevie Wonder'The king of everything, SER DUKE '”
Annie It is someone who does not love being without doing anything and, although the life of a musician raises strange schedules between recordings, tour and red carpets, adapts for productivity. “Well, I'm one Morning person Because it is the only time I can work, but I have learned when I am in Tour The shows They are very physical, so I have to have a regime that as in a certain way, I exercise and sleep at certain times. ”
A few weeks ago we saw her win several Grammy, iconic and with incredible outfits. “I don't try to quote my own song, but in “My Baby Wants A Baby “ say “Only Dress Up If I Get Paid” And it is the most genuine. I don't get bad, I have incredible stylists and makeup artists; I appreciate the awards season and is very fun, but at the same time Feel distant from my day to day. Dressing for ceremonies and red carpets is very fun and I love it, but I couldn't do it every day. I am more to put on a simple pants and blouse to reable my study ”, which, it is worth mentioning, I was doing at the time of our talk.
From the release of your album All Born Screaming and its Spanish version All are born screaming, St. Vincent He has not stopped his participation in scenarios. Last year we saw her with Sir Paul McCartney and Jack White in it Capital Crown And in the future with Olivia Rodrigo Our country. With his great love of Latinos, he will recover his streak to chat with the public more fluently. “I have lost my streak in Duolingobut I will definitely resume it. ”
