Ariel Pink Quotes
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The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.
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I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.
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I'd like to be seen as a normal, attractive person with good values.
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The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.
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At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.
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I sang "Patience" by Guns N' Roses for my sixth grade talent show and I wanted to be an actor when I was younger. It was all very, very theatrical. It was only later that I separated the two and thought of myself as quite the opposite of an actor.
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I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.
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For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.
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If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.
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I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.
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That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.
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I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.
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I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.
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I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.
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Maybe by making people feel uncomfortable, I tap into that uncanny quality that is a part of the scariest, weirdest things that you remember happening to you when you were a kid.
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Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.
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The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with the hoodie. But what you don't get to see in most of those pics is that I had these red clogs on that had, like, eyeballs on the ends of them that I drew on. That speaks a little bit more to what I was going after, stylistically.
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I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.
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I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.
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I probably would never be caught wearing a baseball cap. Hats are difficult to me because they tend to be too big for my head. They don't fit right, and I feel ridiculous.
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I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.
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People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.
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Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.
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I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.