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As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

Ariel Pink

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Ariel Pink
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 24
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
LA
California
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The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.
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I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.
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During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.
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The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.
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From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.
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I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.
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I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.
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I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.
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When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.
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