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I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.
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The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.
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I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.
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I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
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I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.
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I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.
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If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.
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It's not illegal to be an asshole.
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R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.
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I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.
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If you don't appeal to kids, to the zeitgeist, you get thrown on the scrapheap.
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As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.
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It's really the creature of my own making from top to bottom. I appreciate that. And the good fortune, the perseverance, having the stamina to stick around longer than everyone else even after people write you off - that's always been a good motivating force in my life.
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I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man.
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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."
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I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.
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I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.
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I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they think the Beach Boys. I'm thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.
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I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.
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I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.
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I love it when other people can come up with ideas and tell me what to do.
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The universe is expanding, and every second that you're alive, the universe is bigger than it was a second before. There's nothing in front of us, exactly, other than the future, and there's no space for the size, the density of the universe to go. Because it's expanding at every point simultaneously.
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My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me.
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I'm a product of my environment.
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