- Nov 07, 2020
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- Coolness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension. I think the word 'pretension' has become like the word 'ironic' - just this catch-all term to distance people from interesting experiences and cultural engagement and possible embarrassment.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be afraid to embarrass yourself sometimes.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was someone who grew up obsessed with bands, how they were and how they treated one another, and how they treated fans.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
As things mature - whether they be real estate, rock n' roll, politics, festivals, radio - there's an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a lot to me.
- Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing in my first band when I was 12. I like to date myself by saying I was in a New Age band when it wasn't ironic; it was actually called new wave because it was new.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020