I had wonderful friendships, but I am the opposite of a romantic and I wanted to change that because I felt like I was going to miss out on some big things in my life. There’s a book I was reading called Attached, about ten years ago. On your new album Love Is An Art, there is a song called “The Only Way To Love,” that one is my favorite. When another human being and I have a conversation, or I’m experiencing someone perform, I want to connect with that person’s experience. Feeling pressure to hold onto whatever origin point of view it was that brought about your success, and feeling like you need to serve that image of you that everyone loved to watch that is the graveyard of art. I read an interview with a musician from a very successful band who said something like, “Everything I write now, I ask myself, “ can 50,000 people sing this back to me?” I will never forget reading that. I think we’re all trying to find authenticity and integrity in our lives, asking, “ Who are we?” So, if you want to apply that to writing over a long term, over decades. Vanessa Carlton: My North Star and my guide for approaching songwriting and my career in general has been to maintain an evolved point of view that is my own. What’s been your North Star when it comes to songwriting? VICE: Your career in music has spanned decades and you’ve evolved so much as an artist over the years. Carlton’s journey from teenage ballerina to a waitress playing open mic nights to early aughts hitmaker is dizzying, but she’s always followed her intuition relentlessly, and she writes now from the perspective of a wise and traveled songwriter, who is still open and evolving.
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