Ariel Pink Quotes:

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

Topics: Strong, Lineage, Events

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.

source: - "Ariel Pink" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2014.

Topics: Real, Self, Voice

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Topics: Reputation, Evolve, Shows

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

Topics: Heard

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

source: - "Ariel Pink: 'I'm not that guy everyone hates'". Interview with Rhik Samadder, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2014.

Topics: Humanity, Embrace, Accepting, Facets

I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.

Topics: Airports, Clothes, Dresses

I dont want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just dont know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

Topics: Country, Bully, Police, Police Brutality, Victimization

It's not illegal to be an asshole.

source: - «Ariel Pink» by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2014.

Topics: Illegal

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

Topics: Believe, Artist, Parent

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

Topics: Thinking, Intention, Music Is, Best Intentions

I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Opposites, People, House

The ideal is to live forever, right? Or to live right now and just be grateful that I feel good. I'm definitely grateful for every second that I'm alive. At this point in my life, I definitely take time out throughout the day to just stop and be like, "Everything is cool." It's as good as it's gonna be, because it only gets worse.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Grateful, Feel Good, Forever, I Feel Good, I'm Alive

I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.

source: - Source: www.motherjones.com

Topics: Satisfied, Ultimate, Dissatisfied

It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.

source: - "Ariel Pink" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2014.

Topics: Racist, Illegal

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Night, Trying, Sound, Instrumentation, Awake At Night

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Rooms, Improvement, Results, Always Room For Improvement, Room For Improvement

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

source: - "The Pink Album". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 18, 2014.

Topics: Song, States, Revising

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

source: - Source: www.motherjones.com

Topics: Goal, Sobriety, Special

As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Song, Jobs, Thinking

I would die to record in space. That would be the coolest. If I got the option of, going into outer space and hanging out there for a day, and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. I'd be happy just hanging out between the moon and the Earth, getting a view.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Home, Opportunity, Moon

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Inspiration, Writing, Moments

It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Ideas, Interesting, Creative, Fantasy Worlds

I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Artist, Path, Helping

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.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Real, School, Years, Thespians, Talent Show

I love having the impulsivity to change course. I think it's key to keeping things fresh.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Thinking

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

source: - Source: www.motherjones.com

Topics: Doors, Years, I've Learned

It's really the creature of my own making from top to bottom. I appreciate that. And the good fortune, the perseverance, having the stamina to stick around longer than everyone else even after people write you off - that's always been a good motivating force in my life.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Perseverance, Writing, People

Funnily enough, I feel the most free to be myself when I'm not doing my solo project. Whenever I'm in a situation when it's a side thing or it's something not so infused with my ego. When I'm all over everything, it's a big responsibility and half the time leaves me in some weird nether state of insecurity and doubt.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Responsibility, Ego, Insecurity

At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Inspiration, Thinking, Angst

I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good review, I'm like, "Well, one more year, guys. We bought ourselves another year".

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Years, Guy, Records

I've kind of gotten more timid. I used to be fearless - at a certain point I didn't care about what anybody thought. I had all the answers and I could have been as bad as I wanted to be. But nowadays I just want to be good and make people happy.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: People, Fearless, Answers

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Melody, Stills

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.

source: - Source: www.motherjones.com

Topics: Art, Stupid, Rocks, Art Projects

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.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Kids, Thinking, Balls

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Song, Skills, Sound

I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Phases, Troublemaker

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.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Girlfriend, School, Guy, Goth

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: People, Lines, Saws

The universe is expanding, and every second that you're alive, the universe is bigger than it was a second before. There's nothing in front of us, exactly, other than the future, and there's no space for the size, the density of the universe to go. Because it's expanding at every point simultaneously.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Space, Size, Density, Every Second

I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Song, Hate, Squash, Shrinks

It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Looks, Helping, Young

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Self, People, Trying, Self Gratification

I always want to be a member in the audience, and I want to hear it from their point of view and see it from their point of view so I can know if it's good. But that's just my issues, not a real problem.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Real, Issues, Views

I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Home, Underwear, Watches

That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Appreciation, Trying, Different

I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Hollywood, Feels, Wanted, Movie Industry

I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Matter, Bases, Stills

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Struggle, Artist, Odds

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.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Different, Torn, Thousand

Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Humble, Thinking, Careers

I sang "Patience" by Guns N' Roses for my sixth grade talent show and I wanted to be an actor when I was younger. It was all very, very theatrical. It was only later that I separated the two and thought of myself as quite the opposite of an actor.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Gun, Opposites, Two, Sixth Grade, Talent Show

I'm a product of my environment.

source: - Source: www.motherjones.com

Topics: Environment, Products

I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Artist, Calling, Performing

My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Real, Night, Appreciate

In the years between 2000 and 2004, I always got the feeling that people were just starting to hear about me and they were all late to the game. I'd be out playing shows for records that I recorded back in 1999 that were just coming out.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Years, Games, People

I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Knowing, Faces, Firsts

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.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Thinking, Work Out, Way, Performing Live

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.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Who I Am, Trying, Different, New Faces

I always want to do something that just sort of fits the mood. It's supposed to help the song, it's not supposed to take away from the song or re-contextualize it. I always feel like the less you make it a conceptual territorial debut, the better.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Song, Helping, Fit

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Hard Work, Worry, Enough

You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Long, World, Want

I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Competition, Feelings, Good Feeling

If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Fall, Mean, Immature

You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Falling In Love, Crazy, Mean

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.

source: - Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

Topics: Mean, Perspective, Way

I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.

source: - Song: Picture Me Gone, Album: Pom Pom, 2014

Topics: Iphone, Giving, Trying, Apps For Iphone