Ariel Pink Quotes
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I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.
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There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.
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I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.
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Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.
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Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit introspective, a little bit morbid. I was small for my age, so I was bullied and that kind of stuff.
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During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.
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I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.
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If you don't appeal to kids, to the zeitgeist, you get thrown on the scrapheap.
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The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.
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The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.
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I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.
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It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.
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I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.
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It's not illegal to be an asshole.
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I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.
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I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.
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That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.
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I'm a product of my environment.
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I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.
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You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.
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It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.
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The ideal is to live forever, right? Or to live right now and just be grateful that I feel good. I'm definitely grateful for every second that I'm alive. At this point in my life, I definitely take time out throughout the day to just stop and be like, "Everything is cool." It's as good as it's gonna be, because it only gets worse.
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I've kind of gotten more timid. I used to be fearless - at a certain point I didn't care about what anybody thought. I had all the answers and I could have been as bad as I wanted to be. But nowadays I just want to be good and make people happy.
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I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good review, I'm like, "Well, one more year, guys. We bought ourselves another year."