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- Nov 07, 2020
With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.
- Demeanor
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some complication.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.
- Hard
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It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was making 'Xen,' I was surprised at how introverted some of the songs were. I wasn't deliberately trying to go quieter, but I had to embrace it.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never written a happy love song.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make music until I die.
- Important
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I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an all-or-nothing person.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never judge my song titles; I just spit them out.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Internally, we have so many different parts, both positive and negative. And if you force them together, a spark comes out.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mother isn't someone who does it on purpose; mothers are who they are, and just by existing, they affect the way other people negotiate with the environment and with themselves.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I put on performances for my family and my parents where I would dance like a woman, singing a really exaggerated woman's vocal in front of my whole family.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way.
- Communicative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because, maybe in their head, what that means is that they're making it for someone who they don't think is real. Their audience isn't real. But it's still a communicative act. It's still an outward manifestation of longing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned a lot from every musical collaboration I've ever had, but there's something about my relationship with Bjork that is special to me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making music can get so emotional that, if you don't set limits for yourself, it can push you or the person that you're making music with to a breaking point.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and personal. It's almost like dating: you allow yourself to be consumed by the other - not in a bad way, but in a way that happens in nature.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The music has its own kind of agency.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more meaningful.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about 13, and I would write in my journal, I'd be like, 'I just watched 'Spice World,' the Spice Girls movie, and I loved it.' Sometimes I would sign them with the name Xen.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don't ever let that be known.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I gravitate toward someone, I bridge the gap between us somehow, and I accidentally maybe start seeing the world through their eyes.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.
- Exceptions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like contradictions, and I like exceptions. I don't like rules and dogma.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to the conclusion that the best way for me to grow is in a very self-forgiving way: to take a risk and, in response to how a record pans out, take a risk in the opposite charge.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I met Bjork, I felt like it was a friendship first; it was like an oxygen you get from a person you only can exist with symbiotically. It's one of the most beautiful relationships I've had. She is incredible.
- Disruptive
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