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It’s insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, “You could run off with me right now!” I’m like, “It’s cool, I think I’m gonna go read.”

Babatunde Adebimpe

I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that’s ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.
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Art Feelings Thinking
Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.
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Running Ten Years
The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there’s nothing you can do to save it – it’s a horrible feeling.
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Feelings Horrible Realizing
Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don’t really believe it. It’s as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.
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Believe Littles Sky
I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it’s even worse thinking that it’ll go away if you just ignore it.
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Long Real Thinking
Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he’s somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.
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Effort Unique Voice
You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It’s like, “I’m just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross.” You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.
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Hug Lonely Real
There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.
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People Rooms Silence
Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it’s a party every day.
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Party Social Thinking
I probably couldn’t have the same experience listening to that song because I’m self-conscious about some of my singing parts.
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Listening Self Song
If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.
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Enough Knows Turn
I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.
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Artist Depressing People
It’s insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, “You could run off with me right now!” I’m like, “It’s cool, I think I’m gonna go read.”
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Insane Running Thinking
You can physically move yourself around but there’s that great line that Adam wrote: “Does it define for life, like print of thumb?” I think it does.
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Doe Moving Thinking
There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you’re doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.
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Attention Numbers People
No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.
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Hands Jobs Wanted

It’s insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, “You could run off with me right now!” I’m like, “It’s cool, I think I’m gonna go read.”

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