I've always thought it'd be nice to be seaweed, kind of just floating about.
Devendra Banhart
If you're ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you're good to go.
No one's fearless. We're all full of fear. But can your fear guide you or lean into it, embrace it.
I believe we are all dual beings. Some cultures actually believe we have two souls.
Well, love is a difficult thing to hold on to. It's a slippery little beast. It will hold you and then it will elude you at any moment.
Well I am a Gemini.
Something I practice everyday is Tonglin. It's Tibetan for taking and receiving.
Leigh Bowery is a legend. Everybody loves Leigh Bowery. Everybody should love Leigh Bowery.
People love to take sides, but it's not effective. It's not really an effective way of communicating something, because you're either already part of the side or you're going to feel attacked and get defensive.
I meditate.' That's like saying 'I eat.' Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.
Generally, I can't really do much without music playing - even writing or thinking. Peace and quiet means putting on a song.
I collect head shots from bands.
Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.
The first paid show was in Los Angeles at an art opening and I was paid maybe, I don't know, twenty five bucks?
I remember when I was a kid I thought I could either be an athletic water drinker, like an Olympic-level water drinker, or I could invent Windex. Which I thought was really smart, because it already existed.
This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else's expectations or lack of expectations.
With music there's so many limbs and facets. Video and touring and merchandise and all those little things require attention. They're artist things but I tend to joke around too much with those things.
I'm interested in Qawwali and the blues.
I was born in Texas, you know. I was born in Houston.
The only real moment is now.
I love Oasis.
Pay attention to your breathing.
I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.
When anyone dies, it's sad.
I want to say that Beck is incredible. He is an art machine.
I'm deeply conservative and I'm profoundly boring.
As I get older, there's this new realisation and it's almost like a relief, and that is that I can never be who I once was, but only who I want to become.
Caracas was a crazy place in the early Nineties. For instance, when I was 11 years old, I pierced my ear. No big deal, right? But everyone was so scandalised that they shut down the school.
I know that there are energies that vibrate frequencies that are so subtle you could say that they exist in a different territory or realm or sphere, and people mistake these frequencies for ghosts.
In the next life what would my career be? Oh, easy. Dried persimmon dealer.
I want to do a record with Adam Green of all German schlager songs.
As an adolescent I saw the Specials at the Glass House in Pomona, and that was life changing. I dressed the part - except not well, because it was a thrift suit. I looked more like David Byrne than a rudeboy; I still have a hard time finding suits that fit me. But I had my braces and I had my Docs. It was unbelievable.
Canada has really grown and grown as this unexplored and very mysterious and exotic place to me.
I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.
My gadabout days are over.
Grizzly Bear's 'Knife' is one of the best videos of all time - everything Encyclopedia Pictura has done is really incredible.
I sit around and try to play along to certain songs that I really love. It helps you explore new territory.
I try to listen to as much as possible. I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many different musicians, and I need to learn.
I can't tell you how many times I've had a friend tell me, in this tender and discreet voice, 'It's just you and me bro, and I want to tell you the truth: make a record of you and an acoustic guitar. Please. That's what everybody actually likes.' That's so funny to me.
As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: 'Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B.'
I might have some delusions of grandeur.
When the Internet came along, the first thing I did was look up Wu-Tang so I could print out their symbol and glue it onto my skateboard.
In the past, I had this open-door policy where everyone was invited. And that was awesome, but you end up releasing songs that you don't really like and justifying it in your head.
I like California a lot. There's a lot of space, but it's actually the most populated place in the nation.
Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it.
It's all about sensitivity. If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life.
I sometimes think a movement as rich and wild and incredible as Tropicalismo wouldn't have survived without incredibly catchy music.
I grew up around so much new agey stuff. Part of me takes it lightly because I'm so used to it. It was my parents. It wasn't some path I discovered and want to share with people. It's just been a very natural part of my life. There's humor to it and there's seriousness to it, too.
I aspire to feel like a child, how about that!
I love almost every Britpop band.
