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While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my days
in backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.
While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,
I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.

— St. Vincent Marry Me (2007)

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You can’t apologize your way into people’s hearts ... You have to go full force.

For that to have come out of someone's brain, period, is a remarkable feat.

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You don’t ever get the sense that she's making music to pander to anyone. I think you always get her absolute best attempt at her true vision whenever you get a Kate Bush record.

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Come, my love, the stage is waiting,
Be the one to save my saving grace.

Marry Me (2007)

The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake.

Actor (2009)

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