Top 25 Autre Ne Veut Quotes

I feel like since I was 27, I was calling myself 30. And then, when it happened, it was like, ‘I’m finally here now. This is it.

When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It’s totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don’t think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists.

I’ve never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.

In the ’90s, it was cool to just like R&B. But I liked Nirvana and stuff, too.

I don’t think I’m an intentional liar, but I’m a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I’m exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on top of that, then we end up in funny territory.

I’ve never been to a psychiatrist so have never gotten to the point where I could be formally diagnosed with any disorder. But I definitely have anxiety.

In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you’re not good at guitar.

I’d rather proliferate funny little rumors than not.

I’m not good at interacting with people and am terrified to get onstage, so I just go up there, freak out and, most of the time, pack up and go home immediately after.

Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it’s just something that is life blood. If I’m not participating in some way, I feel like I’m wasting my time.

My mom is the type of mom who wonders why I haven’t used my psychology degree to become a successful clinical psychologist.

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.

I like Cronenberg’s early work; his ’80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.

Katy Perry’s politics I could probably do without, though I have friends who have interacted with her that say she’s very nice.

There were no good bands in my town. You know, there’s like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn’t what my life was like at all.

I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music because I didn’t feel comfortable being a soloist. It was a cool, safe space for me musically.

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

I’m trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It’s really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we’ll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.

There’s a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

I have a master’s in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.

I started singing the second I could utter sound.

There’s a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

There’s a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that’s foolish. They’re not really listening.

I’ve always loved singing and the catharsis of it.