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I always get pissed that I can’t make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.

Bethany Cosentino

I went to school for a short period of time to study fashion. I wanted to become a stylist or a designer. I made clothes when I was a teenager that I used to sell online. My label name was “Baby Jesus” – so incredibly stupid, but whatever, I was 17!
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Baby Fashion Jesus
I love clothes so much, I always have. It’s awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.
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Clothes Designer Shows
I’ve always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.
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Fashion Opportunity Urban
I always get pissed that I can’t make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.
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Girly Sound Voice
I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it’s so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That’s what music has always been for me. It’s been a way to tap out of what’s going on in my personal life.
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Art Reality Thinking
I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.
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Ideas Looks Wanted
Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don’t copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.
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Advice Being Giving Yourself
I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.
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Fun Play Thinking
There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I’m like, “I want to go to Mars. This is insane.” But I can’t go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.
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Insane Needs Reality
Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I’ve done.
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Done Fashion Involved
I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.
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Records Song Sound
One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!
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Fronts Moments Sitting
I don’t really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.
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Alternatives Female Liz
I buy most of my clothes online, I just sit around and look at websites and say ‘oh that looks cute’ – and then I just buy it and hopefully it fits because buying stuff online is always sort of risky.
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Clothes Cute Looks
Touring is definitely work. You’re spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it’s not the easiest thing in the world, but it’s better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.
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Car People World
I’m working all the time. When I’m home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.
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Home Trying Writing

I always get pissed that I can’t make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.

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I always get pissed that I can’t make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.

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