“It was really difficult to tour on 'Psychopomp' for a year and do the ...” — Michelle Zauner Quote

“It was really difficult to tour on 'Psychopomp' for a year and do the press cycle and talk to people three or four times a day about my mom dying.”

“My relationship to music is such an essential part of who I am, and was a big part of my relationship with my mom.”

“She paused to sniff the air and made a face. "Is something burning?”

“The image of the band has always been something that's evolved or changed with every record cycle that we've done. I think, in a lot of respects, that's because we were so interested in having a visual representation for the music that we were making.”

“I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.”

“I've seen too many people who have been artists for a long time, on that cycle of record-promote-tour, and you look up and 10 years of your life is gone. I didn't want that to happen to me.”