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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a huge comic book fan. It's weird because the era of 'Marvel' I was into turns out to be very important in the long run, but it's not the one that anybody romanticizes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hang out and sign records for an hour or two hours every night, and I like to hear as many people's stories as I can, because if somebody wants to share their story with me, I want to honor that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that's what people value, is a voice that comes from a real place.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I go see a band, and they play, like, zero from any of their old albums, I'm very happy about that. I do not want to see the bands of my youth playing the songs of my youth. I hate that.
- Good Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't want to use the word 'tribal,' but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make sure people know I don't think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020