You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.
I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.
Never, never mind your bleeding heart.
Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.
I remember somebody handed me Siddhartha when I was I think 18, and I started to read it and I just really didn't like it, and I left it and it was just gathering dust for years. Then maybe five years later, the world shook as I read it.
I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kind of discovered the '80s when I was already older, maybe in college. And I continued to have this romantic obsession with all those films and there's this sound I hear in my head and it's kind of this bittersweet romantic, dark sound.
There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done, and sometimes to be really uncomfortable or agitated or annoyed or bored. Boredom is so important.
As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.
Part of you just has to be in service of processing things and getting them out.
I just love fiction. I love it.
It's always interesting to me to see people projecting things, like people would say, "This record is much more mature than your other record" and I would think, "Well, this record has more songs from when I was 18 on it than the other one."
You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.
I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.
When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I really love. But for the most part, overwhelmingly, my tribes are the surrealists and the storytellers, in song and literature.
I have the coolest parents.
I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.
When I walk through the city, I just think that I see my family. I see us in everybody, you know? I see us.
I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.
I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody.
Maybe one day you’ll understand I don’t want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand.
I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'
You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.
Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.
Maybe you should kiss someone who is nice, or lick a rock, or both.
I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.
