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" Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. "
Frankie Cosmos
Write
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Sometimes
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" I really liked punk music and experimental music that my brother was taking me to go see in the city, when I was probably, like, 13 years old. I was seeing a lot of teenagers making 'weird' music, and I think that was probably a big part of the reason that I actually started to play myself. "
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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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" Performing is something that has really grown on me and become an important part of my life, which I didn't used to feel. I didn't used to want to really perform live a lot. It's been an interesting adjustment. "
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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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" I think I'd like my hair to be perfect. "
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" I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things. "
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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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" 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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" Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else. "
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" If I ever go back to college, I'd study art education. "
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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 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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" 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 love going to weddings. I love movie scenes of weddings. Even, like, TV-show weddings - I cry at every wedding. "
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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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" I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel like I saw so many different kinds of music that I wouldn't have discovered on my own. "
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Seeing
Age
Feel
" I'm not just going to hug every person that asks to hug me. "
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Just
" I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things. "
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Think
New
Always
" 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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Feel
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" I'm always the one sitting at the merch table and talking to everyone at the show - and I think it's because I have this deep fear that if I'm not approachable or I'm not there, people are going to think I'm a brat. "
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" I realized I was trained my whole life to be an accommodating person, to make sure that everybody is comfortable before I'm comfortable. After giving so much of myself to strangers, I learned to care for myself a little more, especially on tour. "
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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 feel like touring is a man's game. And I don't think that's sexist; I just think, on tour, you can't really take care of yourself the way you want to. "
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" When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do. "
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" My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging. "
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" The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever. "
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Feel
Failure
" 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 don't even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to strangers over the course of months... I just can't imagine having to do that. "
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