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.
BABATUNDE ADEBIMPEI 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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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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I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.
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Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it’s a party every day.
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The cynicism doesn’t come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.
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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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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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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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Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it’s overcompensating for something missing in the song’s structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it’s never like an assault.
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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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Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.
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You have to be a really talented writer if you’re trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don’t have the focus to do that, really.
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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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Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
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No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.
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A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.
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