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I don’t like to have everything all worked out in my head because there’s always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

Black Francis

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
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Age Boston Song
As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn’t have a day job.
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Artist Jobs Real
I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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Muiscian Some Temperamental Work
Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won’t bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.
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Age Heart Musician Records Young
I’m always looking to rock out. But it isn’t really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good.
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Looks Mellow Rocks Want Satisfaction
I’ve got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They’re there for me every time.
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Appreciate Audience Loyal
I come from an art history background. I studied at a master’s degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life.
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Art Hero Musical
I think if everyone agrees that that’s the goal then it doesn’t matter who’s the band and it doesn’t matter who’s the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.
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Everyone Matter People Situation
When you look at something that’s really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.
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Good might Real Really Something
You think you’ve made something really great, but there’s a reason why it’s not resonating the way some previous work did. But it’s not that easy to just replicate.
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Mysterious People Previous Thinking Work
I’m really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there’s sound and visuals.
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Art Feelings Thinking
I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it’s kind of like that’s never really been my bag. Probably because I’m too shy.
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Bags Celebrity Kind Musician Shy Strong
My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn’t how people are going to receive them, because they don’t know the code.
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might People Song
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
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Parent Reality Voice
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
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Editors Musicians Stuff
Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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Perfect Tongue Wise

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