American - Musician | June 24, 1978 -
Maybe by making people feel uncomfortable, I tap into that uncanny quality that is a part of the scariest, weirdest things that you remember happening to you when you were a kid.
Ariel Pink
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I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.
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I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.
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If you don't appeal to kids, to the zeitgeist, you get thrown on the scrapheap.
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If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.
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Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?
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I'm not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and 'get real with myself' - come on. I'm already too old, and I'm lucky to have a job at all.
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I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.
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R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.
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I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.
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I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.
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I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school, and every year, I participated in the talent shows and the school plays - all of 'em.
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