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Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it’s a party every day.

Babatunde Adebimpe

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.
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People Together Want
Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there’s more than 808s in the universe.
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Lessons Pockets Song
One second you’re having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite – there’s only lukewarm carrots back there.
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Carrots Opposites People
Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
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Fun Kind Long
Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I’m in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it’s the rare band that doesn’t, like, turn into something else.
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Band might 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
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 want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don’t want to be around basic human bullshit.
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Bullshit Different People
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
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
I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek – this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months.
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People Two Writing
Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.
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Running Ten Years
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
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
There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.
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People Rooms Silence
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
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Father Musician Side

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