Outsider

An excerpt from a now deleted blog post from Juliana on her official site in 2008:

“Outsider” is a song about being an artist. Or in my case, a songwriter. Along with the necessary free time — lots of it — for reflection and spacey thought, being an artist requires a certain amount of solitude. I, for one, need to be all by myself in order to write; I’ve never had any success or ease when I’ve tried to write alongside any other songwriter. (All my song collaborations were carried out with each writer situated in a different place — a different state, sometimes — than the other. Freda would, say, give me a chord progression on tape and I’d take it home and mess around with it and develop it into something more complete.) The ideas don’t flow with another person in my space. I need to be alone to think clearly, to feel freely.