I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.
I'm appalled by the tendency of some rock records to perfect everything to the point where it sounds like Botox and polish it so heavily that there's… - Yannis Philippakis
I'm appalled by the tendency of some rock records to perfect everything to the point where it sounds like Botox and polish it so heavily that there's…
- Yannis Philippakis
I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just lik… - Yannis Philippakis
I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just lik…
I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs. - Yannis Philippakis
I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.
I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing. - Yannis Philippakis
I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.
By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph. - Yannis Philippakis
By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.
I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential. - Yannis Philippakis
I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.
Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write. - Yannis Philippakis
Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.
You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics; I wa… - Yannis Philippakis
You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics; I wa…
I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy. - Yannis Philippakis
I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy.
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