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Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.
When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.
I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.
I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.
I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.
I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.
I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone.
I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.
The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.
I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.
My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.
Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.
I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.
We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.
I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.
As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.
It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.
I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.
The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.
I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there.
Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.
And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.
And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.
My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.
I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.
I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that want them.
Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.
I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.
I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.
Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.
I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.
Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel like I'm a believer in something.
Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.
I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.