January 2011
97 posts
“I think you have moments when you’re writing, when you know. Like when you know you’ve said something, when you’ve come up with something, you feel like a third party almost. Actually, the moment that you write something… like I remember when I wrote “maybe I would have been something you’d be good at” in ‘Call It Off’. I remember when that line of words came out of my mouth and it immediately wasn’t mine anymore. I could feel the universe grab it back and be like “NO! That is universal. That is somebody else’ feeling, you just summed up how we all feel.” Maybe I would be good for you. How do we know? And now we don’t know. It was like the universe came back in and snatched it back from me. And every time that I sing that line, I feel like it’s borrowed from the audience and from the world. So when someone comes up to me with tattoos of our lyrics, I’m like “absolutely, it’s yours.” If it were mine, I would have kept it for me. I’m not putting up pictures of my living room or my private thoughts, or writing a letter to my girlfriend and then putting it up on the Internet, that’s my private stuff. But the second that I put something out into the universe, absolutely, if you are relating to it enough that you’d put it on your body, that’s because it’s something that was meant for you. It sounds insane and will only encourage people to be crazy, but that’s fine.”
—Tegan Quin (via fuckyeahteganandsaraa)
