The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been – and this is a true story – when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks.
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That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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I don’t have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it’s really awful.
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You’re not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You’re just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.
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You’re always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that’s maybe even too weird for your own taste.
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I need punk rock. It’s the medicine for me, but it’s bitter and sickening. If you don’t need it – if you’re happy and healthy – run toward that.
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I’ve been going through a lot of… stuff. I need some space, which people were very kind enough to give me, and I feel really gracious about that. Nobody forces me to do things or say things or do interviews.
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I’m not meaning that in a disrespectful way; you go where people want to hear your music. So if that’s where people want to hear me play.
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All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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I don’t have anything to prove.
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They had it at the library and I always thought that was interesting, even when I was into punk and stuff. Just the history of storytelling and the amount of melancholy a lot of old music has.
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I’ve been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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Unfortunately it’s hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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A song like “Walkabout”, it’s totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I’ve never really made a song to make people happy before.
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Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
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