Britta Phillips
The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.Collection: Way
Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.Collection: School
It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.Collection: Vision
After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.Collection: Creative
I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.Collection: Thinking
I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.Collection: Thinking
I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.Collection: Song
You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.Collection: Sound
When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."Collection: New York
The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.Collection: Sweat
Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.Collection: Tired
Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.Collection: Feelings
Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker.Collection: Eye
I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was.Collection: Trying
I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.Collection: Girl
I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.Collection: Thinking
It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.Collection: Long
I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original songs come out better.Collection: Song
I went through a furnace and came out knowing who I am.Collection: Who I Am
I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.Collection: Serious