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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm open to making any kind of music, or maybe making no music ever again. That's also an option, always. Who knows what'll happen.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2002 I did a big tour of Europe, by train, by myself, on foot, all the time walking from train station to the venue, in a weird town, in a weird country. I'd brought an acoustic guitar with me but it got broken somehow in transit.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
My shows have never been related to my albums at all because my albums have all kinds of crazy instruments and stuff that could never be performed live. I'm used to people expecting this 12-piece band to show up with three drum sets and an accordion.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I was calling myself the Microphones I only really ever played new songs... because I feel, like, a pretty strong connection to the song when I'm performing it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm singing these songs about death and stuff. I see somebody who's, like, in their sixties or seventies at the show, and I'm like, 'Yeah, sure. Fair enough.'
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody from Pitchfork Festival wanted me to have a Microphones reunion. It's a joke. It's just me.
- Heavier
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clear Moon' is more... clear I guess! It's more round-sounding and it's slightly gentler. 'Ocean Roar' is more challenging and weird and darker and heavier - the idea was for it to feel like a thick fog laying on your head, versus a clear sky with the moon in it.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.
- Nov 07, 2020
Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks!
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still be relevant to her - that's a dream of songwriting, maybe.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come out quickly.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to make a record that would transcend the bad, hard feelings of a love relationship not working out, to make something that metabolized it into something useful and good.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter is like a tether back to the functional world, and I'm aware of how helpful that is.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes think about the life that my daughter will have with no mom. What does it mean to have a ghost mom? Not that I can do anything differently about it. But it's an inferior version of what we had planned, you know? This was not our top choice.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love things like the Criterion Collection DVDs. I think those are really well done. I like how far you can push the deluxe-ness of things like that.
- Glow
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of names on the credits of 'The Glow Pt. 2,' but most of those people are just on one half of one song or something.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it perfect.
- Host
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- Nov 07, 2020
On CBC Radio, the Canadian national radio, there's a show called 'WireTap.' The host is Jonathan Goldstein. It's amazing.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always like to play in beautiful cathedrals, when I can somehow get access to do a punk show there.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like Copenhagen, just because my shows there have been really good for some reason. Not that I love the city itself, but every time I play there it feels amazing. Pretty nice people there.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like a bass drum. A big one.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I've heard that makes sense to me about grief is that there's this conception that it's a thing that you process, and then you're done processing it. But really it's not a thing that has an end, it's just what life is like now. You are living with this now, probably forever.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so crass. They didn't get it. Those books don't understand. Nobody understands.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty open.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life here (in the Pacific Northwest, not in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland or the chain of buildings connecting them but in the rest of the place, out west and east from the north-south I-5 river) can sometimes feel like a half-dream, half-myth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I made 'A Crow Looked at Me,' I remember people saying things to me like, 'You've made a beautiful tribute to Genevieve.' And I felt like, no! No no no, I haven't. I made a tribute to my own destruction and desolation. This is not a portrait of her. That's not who she was. She wasn't just a person who died.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't bring myself to release an instrumental album because I feel like I want some meat on the bone. Something to chew on, lyrically and content-wise.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I start with the aim of making something instrumental, and then I'm just like, 'Agh, no, it's not interesting enough. I've got to say something here.'
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that as a kid I was pretty drawn to melodrama.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the experience being in the audience and being overwhelmed by sound, like thick, oppressive loud sound and distortion.
- Density
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eric's Trip is still a huge influence on me. The style of those recordings and the rawness of them is very inspiring. And the density of the distorted parts, amazing.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not satisfied with the ending of 'Mount Eerie' the album, so maybe by calling myself that, I am attempting to elaborate on the ending.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need some time to write songs and work on my thing, but I'm just living my life and doing family stuff and letting inspiration come when it comes. But I also don't feel a desperate need to keep pushing myself into people's faces to stay cool and relevant.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm artistically satisfied and happy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful - an enclave, really, of retreat. It's not helpful for the big picture. It's totally selfish to run away like that.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually not fussy. I enjoy getting into it and talking about anything, really. It feels good.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wanted to make big, bombastic, distorted, echo-y, trippy music, the atmospheric stuff, a studio is nice. But it's nice to know that it's not necessary.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is only good sometimes.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
After many days of grocery store food, sitting down for a deliberate, slow, expensive eating time can be the best.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has happened a few times that I've found myself in a surprise mid-tour recording session.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would say we were more funny punk, a lot of songs about food and stuff like that.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020