Michelle Zauner : (6)

" My career has exceeded beyond all fantasy and expectations that I ever held. " - Michelle Zauner

" I had seen an image of these hanging persimmons that are dried during the winter and turned into sweet, dried fruit. And I really like the idea of this very bitter, hard fruit before it’s ripened – on display and slowly maturing and turning sweeter and letting its environment impact it. It felt like a very fitting metaphor for where I’ve come from. " - Michelle Zauner

" One thing that I’ve always tried to do is create lifts – the moment that you have a rush of feelings. That’s always something that I’m trying to communicate in music, and particularly the style of music that I write for Japanese Breakfast: I’m always trying to build things up into each other. " - Michelle Zauner

" A lot of cookbooks also have incredible food writing, even though I feel like a lot of cookbook authors don’t necessarily identify with being writers. " - Michelle Zauner

" I only wanted to play the guitar so I could write music. As soon as I learned my first three chords I wrote my first song. It was just a tool to get me to be able to do the thing that I wanted to do. " - Michelle Zauner

" I’ve always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist. " - Michelle Zauner