Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it’s a party every day.
BABATUNDE ADEBIMPEI feel like now if you’re going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or “We’re in a library for some reason!”
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I feel like now if you’re going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or “We’re in a library for some reason!”
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Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.
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I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it’s even worse thinking that it’ll go away if you just ignore it.
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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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I’ve had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, “That was off-key” or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you’re leaving and talking to people, and they’re like, “I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!” You just never know.
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Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
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I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.
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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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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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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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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 like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.
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There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.
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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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