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I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.

Bethany Cosentino

As artists and creative people it’s such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, “Hey, we’re all going to be okay. We just need to work together.”
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Artists Empowering People
I don’t think lyrics need to be deep – just write whatever comes out of you. You don’t need to find intense meaning in everything.
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Needs Thinking Writing
I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I’m not really into modern-day beach.
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Beach Modern Party
One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!
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Fronts Moments Sitting
It’s scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, “Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?”
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Song Thinking Writing
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’d love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I’d like to have an everything line!
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Lines Shoes Sunglasses
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
We went from being a band that was recording songs in my bandmate’s bedroom to a band that’s doing extensive touring and had a record on the Billboard charts and everything happened insanely fast, but it’s not something that I sought out. It just happened.
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Bedroom Song Touring
I was looking at pictures of cats laying out on the beach and I thought, “Cats hate water, so why would they like the beach?” But then I realized that cats like to just lay around and lounge and be lazy, and what better place to do that than on the beach?
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Beach Cat Hate
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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Girly Sound Voice
I don’t really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes.
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Attention Pay Trying
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
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
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
It’s very strange that people would consider me a fashion muse but it’s also flattering. I try to just be myself, and wear what’s comfortable and makes me feel good.
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Fashion Feel Good People
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 feel one step closer to Beyoncé now that we both have our own clothing lines.
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Clothing Lines Steps
That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it’s not about your gender; it’s about us being human, being in this together.
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Becoming Daughter Together
Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it’s fun when I get to be expressive in another way.
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Fun Sometimes Way
I found all these stupid pictures of cats at the beach, and I was like, “They get it, man. They totally get it.”
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Beach Cat Stupid
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
My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk. It’s made up of a bunch of songs that don’t really sound the same, but they all go really well together.
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Song Sound Together
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
Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.
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Fashion Girl Icons
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

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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