Adrianne Lenker

"I think I’m learning how to release every day. Recognizing that everything you encounter, touch, or love can become part of you, and in essence never disappears, as long as you can recall it to memory or heart. It’s all so connected that we lose everything, but also, we never lose anything."

"It doesn't feel like it's just originating from my brain. It feels like I'm following an invisible thread of intuition, from one choice to the next... maybe I don't even fully understand once I've written it, but it just feels right. And I just trust that. And then over time, it reveals its layers of meaning to me. That's a mark of what I feel is a good song. It keeps me wanting to play it."

"Real love makes your lungs black Real love is a heart attack"

"This place smells like piss and beer."

"I drove in circles 'round the freight train yard and he turned the headlights off Then he pulled the bottle out then he showed me what was love"

"I see all parallels."

"There's only so much letting go you can ask someone to do."

"Lenker isn’t the room-swallowing presence that [Frances] Quinlan is, but she more than makes up for it in commanding songcraft, which skews dynamic, dissonant, and placid without ever changing its sepia tone."