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
land years long
I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all.
levels spoons flavor
Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.
digging nostalgic trunks
I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.
growing-up cities lines
I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.
kids play oil
I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning storms, and they would knock the electricity out. We had this oil lantern that had been in my grandfather's homestead at the turn of the century, before there even was electricity. He'd bring it down off the top shelf, and we'd always play cards.
beautiful weather giants
I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant.
able imagine grandkids
Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us?
want lenses photograph
I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.
meaning-of-life life-is problem
Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
running hero use
A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.
opportunity love-is recognition
But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.
moving past forever
The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.
order world assuming
Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.
problem accepting solutions
Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.