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• I realized I had written maybe, I dunno, the first ever asexual love song. Where it's really just about a fear of dying alone - you need contact, you need love, you need empathy. You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship.

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  Song, Love You, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

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  Song, Writing, Straight Up

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever - which, according to my psychiatrist, my gayness is a form of narcissism but you'll have to ask him about that.

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  Gay, Guy, Narcissism

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music. And it's not a namedropping thing, but there's just not that many people in this certain small little genre world we live in that I don't know or am not acquainted with. And I like them all; I get along with pretty much everyone. It wouldn't be unusual to see a thousand collaborations at some point.

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  People, Collaboration, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made a song to make people happy before. I really genuinely wanted people to listen to that song and have their spirits lifted.

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  Song, People, Goal

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• I'll be honest with you, one of the things that frustrated me the most out the record leak thing, it had nothing to do with record sales - I mean, that's a joke. Has anybody looked at how many records anybody sells anymore? If you're not Jay-Z, a record leaking isn't going to affect you. It was just really personal.

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  Mean, Frustrated, Honest

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• I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.

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  Song, Book, Writing

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• You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In my case it's kind of weird because I started out being known more for ambient things and ambiguous music, but what's experimental for me is the more traditional structure. For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

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  Trying, Musician, Kind

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• All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

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  Devotion, Devotional, Music Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I collaborate a little bit with different aspects of my own mind. I kick my own ass instead of kicking other people's asses.

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  Mind, Different, Ass

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a lot of things. I've always wanted to learn how to paint, too. I'd like to try everything, but music is my reason for living.

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  Garden, Trying, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.

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  Fighting, People, Survival

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

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  Attention, Asking, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and it was overdue; I don't even remember what day it was.

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  Writing, Needs, Remember

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• I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.

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  Writing, People, Perspective

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• Talk to Arto Lindsay and I'm sure he's tired of people asking him about DNA; he's probably really into what he's doing now, which is good stuff. I guess I probably feel like that. But I'm obviously not comparing myself to someone as iconic as that.

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  Tired, Dna, People

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• Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

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  Artist, Musician, Stuff

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• I've got this thing where I always kind of diss the older stuff and favor the newer stuff. I mean, it's not just my thing; every artist or musician is like that, I guess.

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  Mean, Artist, Musician

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• The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.

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  Thinking, People, Pretentious

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• When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.

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  Couple, Beer, Years

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• The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.

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  Drinking, Air, Self

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• You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.

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  Acceptance, Thinking, Validation

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People roll their eyes and say, "Oh god, he's not rich or famous." I say it's relative. I mean, look at me: I'm 115 pounds and I grew up without money. To me, I'm rich because I don't have to worry about paying rent. I don't think about money now.

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  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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• I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s.

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  People, Born, 80s

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate caste system where it's like, "I'm the musician, you're the audience. Never the two shall meet." It was a case where it was like, "Hey, you know what? I'm on your level, man."

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  Men, Artist, Two

  Source: pitchfork.com

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