St. Vincent Quotes

Honey can you reach the spots that need oiling and fixing. H E L P Help Me.

While people will cheer on the spectacle we've made I'm sitting and sculpting menageries of saints.

Marry me, John, I'll be so good to you — You won't realize I'm gone, You won't realize I'm gone.

You don’t ever get the sense that she's making music to pander to anyone. I think you always get her absolute best attempt at her true vision whenever you get a Kate Bush record.

I love the idea that something would be whimsical, and like "delightful", you know, but also disgusting — so I like this sort of, you know, a really gnarly guitar — really gross, disgusting guitar and then a — really a whimsical... — it's one of those things you can only describe in sort of awkward hand gestures and eye motions. Imagine!

Tomorrow's some kind of Strangerland where all the news is good.

I traded my plot of land for a plane to anywhere Oh where did you go. And I can't see the future but I know it's watching me. All my old friends aren't so friendly And all my old haunts are now haunting me.

I'm not your mother's favorite dog I'm not the carpet you walk on I'm not one small atomic bomb I'm not any any any anything at all.

Good souls have born better sons, Better souls born worse ones. Paint the black hole blacker...

I'm not the pawn to your king I'm not your world on a string I'm not anyone you'll beat I'm not anything

I read an interview with her one time, where she was asked, something along the lines of "Why do you write from the perspective of a lot of characters?" And she said very simply and eloquently "because they're more interesting than I am."

What me worry? I never do I'm always amused and amusing you

You're a supplement, You're a salve, You're a bandage, pull it off I can quit you, cut it out. You're a patient, iron lung.

I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

The unkissed girls and boys of paradise Are lining up around the block Back pockets full of dynamite While their neighbors talk and talk.