I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn’t a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn’t deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.
BLACK FRANCISWhen 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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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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I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
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Some people think, “Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before.” But it just doesn’t work like that. It’s a lot more mysterious or slippery.
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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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It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
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Who do sing SONGS. It’s like I never sang before; like I was – I don’t know – reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing
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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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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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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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Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
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That’s the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them.
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They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
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If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
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