Venezuelan - Musician | October 14, 1989 -
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.
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It's grotesque to believe the body we inhabit we want to inhabit 24/7.
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A mother isn't someone who does it on purpose; mothers are who they are, and just by existing, they affect the way other people negotiate with the environment and with themselves.
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I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight.
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When I was young, I put on performances for my family and my parents where I would dance like a woman, singing a really exaggerated woman's vocal in front of my whole family.
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I feel like every record I've ever made, on some level, is urgent.
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Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way.
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I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because, maybe in their head, what that means is that they're making it for someone who they don't think is real. Their audience isn't real. But it's still a communicative act. It's still an outward manifestation of longing.
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I've learned a lot from every musical collaboration I've ever had, but there's something about my relationship with Bjork that is special to me.
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Making music can get so emotional that, if you don't set limits for yourself, it can push you or the person that you're making music with to a breaking point.
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It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and personal. It's almost like dating: you allow yourself to be consumed by the other - not in a bad way, but in a way that happens in nature.
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When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The music has its own kind of agency.
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