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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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" 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. "

Frankie Cosmos

Seeing

Age

Feel

" I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it. "

" 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! "

" My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging. "

" 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. "

" The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates. "

" I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs. "

" I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion. "

" I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships. "

" I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things. "

" I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things. "

" I've definitely gotten to the point where we get to the venue, and people know that I'm in charge of the band. "

" I meet a lot of people after shows, and I have to say it's pretty intense. "

" I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing. "

" Sometimes I'm really mean to someone who just hugged me. I never thought that I would be like that. "

Frankie Cosmos

Thought

Sometimes

" Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix. "

" 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. "

Frankie Cosmos

City

Music

" You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. "

" There've been times on tour when people have said to us, 'Yeah, your band is really simple.' But it's really not. "

Frankie Cosmos

People

Simple

" 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. "

" Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can. "

" I can be very social, but often, it weighs down on me later that the social thing was a put-on. I feel like my way of dealing with not wanting to go out is, I just don't. I can't bring myself to. "

" 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. "

" The first music-learning thing that I took seriously was piano lessons when I was a kid. I guess that was probably the only time that I was forced to perform music, because I had piano recitals, and my school also had mandatory music classes that had some performing required. "

" I'm not just going to hug every person that asks to hug me. "

" I love going to weddings. I love movie scenes of weddings. Even, like, TV-show weddings - I cry at every wedding. "

Frankie Cosmos

Even

Love

" I think I'd like my hair to be perfect. "

" Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else. "

" 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?' "

Frankie Cosmos

You

Thought

" 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. "