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The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.
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Britta Phillips
#Way
#Unconscious
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Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.
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Britta Phillips
#School
#Brooklyn
#Bucks
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It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.
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Britta Phillips
#Vision
#Good Things
#Ends
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After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.
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Britta Phillips
#Creative
#Painful
#Easier
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I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.
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Britta Phillips
#Thinking
#Want
#Coming Out
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I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.
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Britta Phillips
#Thinking
#Interesting
#Style
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I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.
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Britta Phillips
#Song
#Feelings
#Nostalgia
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You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.
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Britta Phillips
#Sound
#Albums
#Want
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When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."
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Britta Phillips
#New York
#Ego
#Obnoxious
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The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.
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Britta Phillips
#Sweat
#Eric
#Producers
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Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.
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Britta Phillips
#Tired
#Creative
#Hours
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Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.
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Britta Phillips
#Feelings
#Negative
#Want
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Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker.
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Britta Phillips
#Eye
#People
#Kind
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I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was.
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Britta Phillips
#Trying
#Ambitious
#Music Love
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I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.
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Britta Phillips
#Girl
#Husband
#Trying
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I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.
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Britta Phillips
#Thinking
#Get Better
#Taste In Music
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It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.
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Britta Phillips
#Long
#Mind
#Albums
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I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original songs come out better.
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Britta Phillips
#Song
#Thinking
#Ideas
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I went through a furnace and came out knowing who I am.
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Britta Phillips
#Who I Am
#Knowing
#Furnaces
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I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.
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Britta Phillips
#Serious
#Tough
