I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

- Avey Tare

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

- Avey Tare

There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unkn…

- Avey Tare

The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What am I feeling about thi…

- Avey Tare

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

- Avey Tare

I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like 'Pullhair Rubeye,' or something a little bit more organic than that.

- Avey Tare

Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland.

- Avey Tare

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around…

- Avey Tare

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

- Avey Tare