If you can express something in the simplest way possible, I think there's something noble in that. It's easy to flesh stuff out and get all purple with it, being cryptic and wearing masks... I think it's a bit adolescent. I wanted to write in a way that was vulnerable. I wanted to have courage in stripping back the opaque stuff so it was just raw. I like lyrics that are a lifeline, that have a purpose to them and are not just meandering around in a masturbatory way. They cut the page.
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.
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.
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.
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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