Laura Veirs
“I like to have many interests at once so nothing is too precious or becomes too obsessive.”
I cannot imagine a world in which Laura Veirs ever sits still. When she’s not giving the muse a good side eye (“It doesn’t like to be looked at head on”), she’s painting or reading or writing or exercising or surfing. All while tackling the hardest job of all: being a single parent. Oh, and this is on top of writing 100-150 songs per album before whittling them down. “If you have a family, you can’t be a tortured artist,” Veirs told me. “You have to be there for your kids.”
Veirs’s new album Found Light is out July 8 on Bella Union. Listen to the latest Songwriters on Process podcast interview with Laura Veirs!
*Photo by Shelby Brakken
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