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I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it.

Babatunde Adebimpe

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I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months.
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If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.
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You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.
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I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or We're in a library for some reason!
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It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, You could run off with me right now! I'm like, It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read.
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Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.
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Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.
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The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.
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I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.
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If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.
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I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.
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My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
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I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, That was off-key or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, I had the best time of my life! That was amazing! You just never know.
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