The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy Opens Up About Lifelong Anxiety, Impostor Syndrome

The Decemberists have been making memorable, popular, and
critically acclaimed music for over twenty years and for that
entire time, lead singer and songwriter Colin Meloy has battled
the feeling that he’s secretly a fraud. And the more success he’s
had with his career, the more he’s been at the head of a large
organization upon which people earn their livelihood, the more
that feeling grew. Colin hasn’t gone into much detail about this
interviews over the years but he does so in this honest and
vulnerable conversation that also touches on his long-standing
issues with anxiety and the formative challenge of a parent who
discouraged him from pursuing the arts as a profession.


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