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I don’t like to have everything all worked out in my head because there’s always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

Black Francis

I don’t make records that way, where I’m trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it’s just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.
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Aesthetic Records Trying Way
I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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Muiscian Some Temperamental Work
Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.
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Perfect Tongue Wise
When we’ve got something to say to the world, we will. I’m really happy that people are interested. “So, what’s up with the Pixies record? So, what’s up with the Pixies record?”
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Done Guy People Something Will
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
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Editors Musicians Stuff
They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
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Credit Giving Toes
I think if everyone agrees that that’s the goal then it doesn’t matter who’s the band and it doesn’t matter who’s the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.
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Everyone Matter People Situation
I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I’ll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y’know, just see where roads lead.
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Cities Country Pleasure Trying
I’m really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there’s sound and visuals.
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Art Feelings Thinking
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
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Parent Reality Voice
I come from an art history background. I studied at a master’s degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life.
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Art Hero Musical
There’s more to life than listening to rock music.
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Listening Rock Music Rocks
If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.
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Creativity Records Trying
You think you’ve made something really great, but there’s a reason why it’s not resonating the way some previous work did. But it’s not that easy to just replicate.
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Mysterious People Previous Thinking Work
When you look at something that’s really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.
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Good might Real Really Something
I don’t want to do children’s music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids – like when I’m putting them to bed.
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Children Song Writing

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