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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’m gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page” or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it’s just a real drag that people live their lives that way.
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Live People Something Sound Way
That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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Culture Imitation Narrative
I don’t like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don’t know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they’re so far off a lot of the time.
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People Sound Voice
When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I’ve been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.
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Car People Sides
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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Group Mythology Singer Story
You gotta have friends, and it’s really hard to have friends that don’t operate on the same schedule as you or do the same kind of things you do, because they don’t understand it.
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Friend Kind Realizing Schedule
I want to build an audience that’s willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.
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Audience Build Choose
What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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Song Straight Up Writing
When I go on a nostalgia trip it’s not aesthetic. For me it’s about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I’ve experienced in the past personally.
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Feelings Past Smell
All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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Devotion Music Something
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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Giving Nobody People Space
I think the younger kids need to realize there’s this whole forgotten 90s that people don’t really talk about.
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Kids People Thinking
I don’t have anything to prove.
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Anything Country People Prove Totally
For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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Experimenting Me Traditionalism
I like my solitude, and I’m a strong-willed person; I’m a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
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Solitude Sometimes Strong
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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Collaboration People World

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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