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I like residing in abstraction.
I’ve never known a man who loved me.
When I live, I'll give it all I've got.
I think musicians should stay off television generally.
I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.
It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.
I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.
We stayed a long, long time, to see you, to meet you, to see you at last.
An imaginary baby is so much easier than a real baby. No diapers to change.
I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.
Art is... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.
We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.
Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work.
I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song.
I don't think it's so hard to be commercial and interesting. Look at Prince, or Neil Young.
I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'
Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body, but nothing ever happens.
Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect.
Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.
I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring.
I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.
That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.
My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.
I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.
Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.
Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it.
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.
I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember.
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
I think of the saddest thing I can and then add a sick dog to that. If I think of a sick dog from the beginning, I just stop there.
I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical... I want less melody.
The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.
Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing.
The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication.
I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.
I've been trying to challenge myself to be more explicit. I've always liked punk rock and Sonic Youth. I make that music privately, but I've never released it.
I'd like to do a record that doesn't even reference actual places. Because I think it's kind of an open-ended concept. It doesn't have to be taken so literally.
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.
We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.
I've been working a lot on figuring out how to sing differently and better. I want to become a better singer. I want to sing out more. I want to me more extroverted, vocally.
There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.
There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.
I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.
I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.
There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.