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\"st<\/a>Being a midwife rather than a dictator suggests to me the difference between Braque and Picasso.\u00a0Einstein puts the hair into perspective too.<\/p>\n

From The Guardian<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, anyway, album of the year! Hooray! Did you feel that St Vincent would be so critically acclaimed as you were making it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Laughs.] I mean, no! It\u2019s not that it felt bad, more that I don\u2019t write from the point of getting critical success. That feels like a quick way to artistic death labyrinth. You have to approach the creative process with reverence and respect, but you also have to give yourself over to it and say: \u201cThe music will tell you what it wants to be, so try and get out of the way, try and be a midwife instead of a dictator.\u201d . . . It was kind of like \u2026 I don\u2019t have children, but this is what I imagine having children would be like. I\u2019m from a family with a lot of kids, and I was later down the line \u2026 by the third kid, or the seventh kid, you\u2019re just like: \u201cYeah, stay out as late as you want! Do whatever!\u201d You learn to just let them be what they want to be.<\/p>\n

The Guardian review of St Vincent claimed that your style icon is Einstein \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, I\u2019m quite an Einstein fan. I love that he only had one outfit because he needed to conserve brain space. He essentially had a uniform so that he didn\u2019t have to think. When you can make those macro decisions automatically, you free up a lot of time for more important things.<\/p>\n

Have you taken this on in your own life?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah \u2026 I mean, I\u2019m organised. I\u2019m obsessed with the idea of building systems and how systems work. So I\u2019m definitely the person who spends their time creating the system and then implements the system. That way, you\u2019re not reinventing the wheel every single day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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