Frankie Cosmos Quotes
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I never was interested in acting, and I never became good at it.
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What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'
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It's even easier to write about the past now that I'm happy and have better stuff to write about. That's why someone like Bob Dylan can make so many records over so long a time; it's not like he's been sad all this time. He's really successful!
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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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Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can.
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Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.
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I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs.
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It was a really long process, dropping out of college. I was there for a semester, then I would take a semester off and go on tour, then I would go back for a semester.
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It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time.
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I feel like touring is a man's game. And I don't think that's sexist; I just think, on tour, you can't really take care of yourself the way you want to.
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Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.
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One of the cool things about traveling and being a musician is that you meet so many people who have studied different things and have different careers.
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I think I'd like my hair to be perfect.
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The first music-learning thing that I took seriously was piano lessons when I was a kid. I guess that was probably the only time that I was forced to perform music, because I had piano recitals, and my school also had mandatory music classes that had some performing required.
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I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things.
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I've played Frankie Cosmos shows where the promoter or whoever sees that I'm the lead singer, and then they go up to David, the bassist, and are like, 'So, do we pay you?' And he's like, 'No, you pay her; she's the boss.' Those are moments where I'm just like, 'I'm clearly in charge.'
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It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.
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There've been times on tour when people have said to us, 'Yeah, your band is really simple.' But it's really not.
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My Bandcamp had a lot of bad and good music, but I relied on that to sort my feelings. My sadness will always be there, even in the happiness.
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Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.
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I knew that 'Next Thing' was an angry album while I was making it. But I thought that it was angry the way that you get in a fight, not angry as a huge life change.
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I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things.
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I love going to weddings. I love movie scenes of weddings. Even, like, TV-show weddings - I cry at every wedding.
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The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates.