Venezuelan - Musician | October 14, 1989 -
It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.
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When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.
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When I was making 'Xen,' I was surprised at how introverted some of the songs were. I wasn't deliberately trying to go quieter, but I had to embrace it.
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I've never written a happy love song.
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I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.
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Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.
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I want to make music until I die.
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I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.
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I never judge my song titles; I just spit them out.
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I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.
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Internally, we have so many different parts, both positive and negative. And if you force them together, a spark comes out.
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It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts.
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