Australian singer-songwriter Liz Stringer has spent decades navigating the music industry's twists and turns, learning not just its mechanics but which battles are worth her energy, and which aren't.
"I'm in my 40s now and I don't have a lot of shits left to give about what people think about me," she says.
"I just don't have the energy for it. All the energy has to go into making art now."
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"I found myself, about a year ago, self-managed again. Anyone who's self-managed knows it's so much work and my creative process has suffered as a result," she says.
"I've only just started to write songs again after a quite a long period of not writing songs.
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