I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
BLACK FRANCISI like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it’s kind of like that’s never really been my bag. Probably because I’m too shy.
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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 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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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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I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend’s driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
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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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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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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.
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A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
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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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You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual.
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It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
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It’s sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That’s the level where I want to go.
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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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When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It’s a feeling that you can’t label with words.
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