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But on Captain of None, she's added lyrics for the first time.
"I thought, 'OK, I'm going to try to learn singing,' but for about two years I sang completely the wrong way, which means I wasn't breathing properly," she says.
There is a running thread through all of her lyrics about the experience of being human: "I think I was ready to write lyrics about trying to understand yourself, understand others and just realizing that you know — you never know what's in your heart."
Hear more at the audio link about Schott's transformation from instrumentalist to lyricist, and her thoughts on Captain of None, in an interview with NPR's Scott Simon.
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