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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.

Babatunde Adebimpe

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.
BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE

Enough Knows Turn
Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there’s more than 808s in the universe.
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Lessons Pockets Song
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
When I’m in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don’t really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.
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Feelings Song Sound
I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.
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Littles New York People
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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Long Real 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
If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.
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Bowie Creative Writing
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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People Together Want
A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.
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Band People Thinking
I don’t want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I’m doing.
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People Thinking Want
Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.
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Running Ten Years
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
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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Listening Self Song
Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
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Fun Kind Long
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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Attention Numbers People

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