That’s the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them.
BLACK FRANCISI think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
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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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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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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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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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I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
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If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.
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This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.
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I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It’s hard to say whether or not you’re a believer.
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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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Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
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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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They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
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You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
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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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I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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