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I like baroque things.
I've always been on the periphery.
I am a ham, I like to joke around.
I find Trump to be like a parasite.
I find Nevada to be extremely spooky.
I want to help people and change the world.
I was born in L.A. In Santa Monica, actually.
I was an alto and was in a lot of choirs growing up.
Everybody is their own galaxy, their own separate entity.
I can't stay within the constructs of societal expectations.
Anne Briggs is great, and I love Sandy Denny and Steeleye Span.
I like writing in total isolation like out in the woods somewhere.
I kind of have an allegiance to the city, but I don't love Brooklyn.
I don't use foundation or anything - sometimes just a little BB cream.
I think the American Dream is kind of a myth, especially for millennials.
I'm grateful that I didn't get thrown into the limelight at 19-years-old.
I don't wanna make something depressing, I wanna make something sorrowful.
I wanted to be a comedian long before I wanted to be a musician, for sure.
There's nothing wrong with the feminine, there's nothing wrong with being vulnerable.
I wanted to show people that there's nothing wrong with trying to make something sacred.
I aspire to write like Robert Wyatt. I take a lot of inspiration from the way he writes.
I feel just as passionately about experimental electronic music as I do about folk music.
The most restorative activity is to get out in nature where the air quality is a little nicer.
I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.
A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.
I do sometimes feel like I function within an echo chamber and I'm just kind of preaching to the choir.
I really like a lot of different music, and it's taken a while to make them all work together as a unit.
You can't really ignore what's going on in this planet, in our world, and the way it's all falling apart.
The concept of 'Bad Magic' is something that is incredibly intoxicating and magical but ultimately bad for you.
I'm not a dogmatic Christian and I don't believe in the Bible literally, but I realized that Jesus is basically a very Zen dude.
My mom was obsessed with Joni Mitchell; I grew up listening to so much of her music. But it was never a prerogative to emulate her.
I feel like humor and tragedy are all on the same coin, and it's all a part of the same process as humans as we assimilate reality.
I love British folk music, but I'm not obsessed with it. I love the Celtic stuff, and Enya is a favorite, but that's more electronic.
Seeing Wolf Eyes for the first time - I was fifteen. I had this crazy feeling that this my generation's Stooges. I got infected by that energy.
I've always tried to create music the way Kubrick makes film, just kind of mimicking consciousness. He has a way of mimicking this greater power.
When I went through puberty I had a huge rebellion against movies. I was so upset with how they brainwashed me that I didn't watch movies for years.
I'm always thinking about the bigger picture and always feeling so much for everybody else, and kind of experiencing the pain of the world, personally.
I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that's how reality always is - it's this duality of being both hopeless and also full of hope.
I always had a lot of empathy for the deep outcast weirdos in school. I was kind of like the more sociable weirdo, but I was always talking to the real weird ones.
I can't read Jodorowsky's Twitter every day, firstly because I can't go on Twitter every day, but secondly because homie is an intense excavator of the human soul.
Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It's easy to idolize the past, before those things were prevalent.
Our generation is the most cinematically saturated of all time. Videotapes, DVD's, streaming... Spielberg... all of it has thrust us into an endless loop of consumption.
I'm into a lot of Eastern philosophy. It's kind of like theosophy; it's about finding the relationships between all the great religions and focusing in on the good stuff.
A lot of my family members were performers, and my cousins are comedians and actresses. From a very young age, movies were really important. They were given a lot of value.
Lamantia is faith building, encouraging poetry in that it abstractly hugs you by finally capturing the inexpressible. It's an experience similar to relief, reading his poems.
I was always interested in the fringes of culture and society and in expressing myself in a distinctively different way, like always rooting for the underdog, that kind of thing.
There's a lot of artists out there who are pretty big but don't write their songs, they just have a lifestyle brand. These are all things that I think are a great enemy to music.
We thought the Internet would enlighten everyone, but it's given everyone access to more ignorance, and given ignorant people an opportunity to organize themselves and congregate.
I've always been very progressive and as much as I play Old World music, I have this progressive tenacity to keep adding futuristic elements in subtle ways where you won't notice.
I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.