Frankie Cosmos Quotes
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You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge.
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My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?'
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My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging.
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I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.
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I try to not assume things are sexism. I'm trying to be good natured about why things are happening.
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I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.
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The way my body is viewed in the world is different than a male body. People are going to write about the performance, but they're probably also going to be writing about what I was wearing or my hair, which just doesn't happen to men.
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I don't actually have problems dealing with corporate situations. There are times I've railed against it, but there are other times when I'm like, 'I'll take your money, no problem.'
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Performing is something that has really grown on me and become an important part of my life, which I didn't used to feel. I didn't used to want to really perform live a lot. It's been an interesting adjustment.
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Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time I pick up an instrument.
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I really liked punk music and experimental music that my brother was taking me to go see in the city, when I was probably, like, 13 years old. I was seeing a lot of teenagers making 'weird' music, and I think that was probably a big part of the reason that I actually started to play myself.
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I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel like I saw so many different kinds of music that I wouldn't have discovered on my own.
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I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.
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If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.
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If I ever go back to college, I'd study art education.
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I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it.
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I realized I was trained my whole life to be an accommodating person, to make sure that everybody is comfortable before I'm comfortable. After giving so much of myself to strangers, I learned to care for myself a little more, especially on tour.
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I'm not just going to hug every person that asks to hug me.
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The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever.
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I've definitely gotten to the point where we get to the venue, and people know that I'm in charge of the band.
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If I could have a record that represents every stage of my life, I'd be putting out one a month. Everything is always changing, and so is the way that I feel about stuff.
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I don't even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to strangers over the course of months... I just can't imagine having to do that.
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When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do.
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My parents listened to a lot of James Taylor and Hall and Oates. My mom and I used to listen to Liz Phair and Indigo Girls a lot in the car, too.