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Super-talented singer-songwriter Neko Case is not immune to self-doubt. In the years before becoming \u201can adult,\u201d she tells us she had a complicated relationship with ambition. 

\u201cI wanted to be in a band and I wanted to play music, but I couldn\u2019t have even told you that then,\u201d Case said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have even thought that I was capable of that, even though I was completely obsessed and had been my whole life.\u201d

Her work has gone on to receive a lot of critical acclaim over her 30-plus years of making music. Her newest album is called Hell-On. She stopped by WBEZ to tell us how she maintains her sanity while touring and how she\u2019s not superstitious \u2014 even though she learned her house burned down on the same day she recorded the vocals for a song called \u201cBad Luck.\u201d