There’s no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn’t be – bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.
ALAN PALOMOI never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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I think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base.
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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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There’s a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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You can’t always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.
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Things are changing at such a rate that you really can’t get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.
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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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I have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.
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