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• ‟ When I started with music, all I was looking for was to ensure I never had to live the life I grew up with. I wanted a foolproof exemption from pain and boredom. I wanted a life of constant amusement and leisure.

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• ‟ When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

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• ‟ There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

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• ‟ I play sad bastard music. For the money.

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• ‟ With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

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• ‟ If music was made by some kind of critical theorist, it would sound like my music.

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• ‟ My music asks people to think critically, so how can I get upset when people think about me critically?

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• ‟ I think you only have to pull stunts if the content of your music is meaningless.

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• ‟ People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music.

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• ‟ Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

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• ‟ People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.

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