Mikky Ekko Quotes

#1. You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of homesick right now.

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#2. The first time I was in Stockholm, everybody was real cordial, but I started having these nightmares that I was being watched by aliens, basically all the time. My theory on it was that it was really, really unnerving to be in a place where English isn't the first language.

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#3. Everybody's able to pour into each other creatively, and pop into the studio and pop out. It feels like a community. As an artistic community I think it's really cool.

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#4. I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the classic, more traditional idea of songwriting.

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#5. Smile, the worst is yet to come,

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#6. I think, being a male singer, I always hate another great male singer's voice before I can love it, unless it's just really far from what I do.

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#7. There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.

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#8. I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it exist as intensely as I could.

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