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Cat Power, whose name is Chan Marshall when she’s not making music, spoke with NPR’s Lulu Garcia Navarro about how she remembers her own childhood through music, how motherhood has made her more grounded and how this album is meant to serve as a reminder to keep striving. Listen to the conversation at the audio link and read an extended transcript below.

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There’s so many reasons why we feel so intent about certain feelings, because of losing friends, that pain over all these years of all the ones who’ve gone before. There are still friends that are still battling and struggling, and there are friends that have definitely climbed up to the higher road, and are canada goose outlet kokemuksia on that path and it’s day by day. Life is a lesson, and sometimes it’s difficult to learn.

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