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" I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?' "
Frankie Cosmos
Want
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" If I could have a record that represents every stage of my life, I'd be putting out one a month. Everything is always changing, and so is the way that I feel about stuff. "
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" What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.' "
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" My Bandcamp had a lot of bad and good music, but I relied on that to sort my feelings. My sadness will always be there, even in the happiness. "
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" Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else. "
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" I've played Frankie Cosmos shows where the promoter or whoever sees that I'm the lead singer, and then they go up to David, the bassist, and are like, 'So, do we pay you?' And he's like, 'No, you pay her; she's the boss.' Those are moments where I'm just like, 'I'm clearly in charge.' "
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" I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things. "
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" I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs. "
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" I knew that 'Next Thing' was an angry album while I was making it. But I thought that it was angry the way that you get in a fight, not angry as a huge life change. "
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" I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried. "
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" If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing. "
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" My parents listened to a lot of James Taylor and Hall and Oates. My mom and I used to listen to Liz Phair and Indigo Girls a lot in the car, too. "
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" I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing. "
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" If I ever go back to college, I'd study art education. "
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Back
" When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do. "
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" When I was 18, I borrowed my parents' car, and they are super supportive. They might give us snacks for the road, but it's not like they are paying clubs to book us. "
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" My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?' "
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" I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships. "
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" Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can. "
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" Sometimes I'm really mean to someone who just hugged me. I never thought that I would be like that. "
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" It's even easier to write about the past now that I'm happy and have better stuff to write about. That's why someone like Bob Dylan can make so many records over so long a time; it's not like he's been sad all this time. He's really successful! "
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" I think I'd like my hair to be perfect. "
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" Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time I pick up an instrument. "
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" It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time. "
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" It was a really long process, dropping out of college. I was there for a semester, then I would take a semester off and go on tour, then I would go back for a semester. "
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" There've been times on tour when people have said to us, 'Yeah, your band is really simple.' But it's really not. "
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" I love going to weddings. I love movie scenes of weddings. Even, like, TV-show weddings - I cry at every wedding. "
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" Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then. "
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" I don't actually have problems dealing with corporate situations. There are times I've railed against it, but there are other times when I'm like, 'I'll take your money, no problem.' "
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" I've definitely gotten to the point where we get to the venue, and people know that I'm in charge of the band. "
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