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
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There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since.
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Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.
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As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'
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One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.
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People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.
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When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.
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I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got to feed them, he's got to pay them, he's got to take care of the camp followers and the gamblers and the people who cause disorder.
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Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.
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I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it.