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The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there’s nothing you can do to save it – it’s a horrible feeling.

Babatunde Adebimpe

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
I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.
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Artist Depressing People
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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Focus News Song Stories
Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don’t really believe it. It’s as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.
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Believe Littles Sky
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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Away Final Going Taken
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
Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart – you don’t think about them as bands; they’re just the soundtrack of your life.
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Band Heart Thinking
It’s insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, “You could run off with me right now!” I’m like, “It’s cool, I think I’m gonna go read.”
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Insane Running Thinking
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
The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there’s nothing you can do to save it – it’s a horrible feeling.
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Feelings Horrible Realizing
Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
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Fun Kind Long
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
Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it’s a party every day.
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Party Social Thinking
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
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
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

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