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“Everything must change, everything must stay the same.” Those are good words to have circling around in my head. I just wish that I was able to deal with them, not by singing, but by helping myself. But singing helps, too.

Helping

Singing

Wish

“Face Again” is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I’m describing a world where love is being killed, and then in the first chorus, I’m sort of protesting it. It’s like, “I don’t think you know what’s best for me.” And then by the end, it’s like I’ve given in, and it becomes very desperate.

Love Is

Song

Thinking

A lot of electronic-based musicians give very low-risk performances, and it’s fun to hear your favorite band play live on a big speaker, but the live context is about the moment of risk and that moment of possible failure.

Fun

Giving

Risk

As someone who listens almost exclusively to contemporary hip-hop and R&B, I definitely like “No Bullshit” by Chris Brown, and melodically I’m really into what he’s doing – that song is kind of singular because it’s got this piano intro and outro. But obviously I’m not singing about what he’s singing about. What we want out of our songs is not the same thing.

Bullshit

Singing

Song

Being on the road, because you do so much waiting and so much traveling. It’s not the same thing as being in the same city for a week or two weeks and then another city. It’s really hard. I don’t think people understand this about being a touring musician, or a touring actor, or somebody who flies everywhere for business. It’s incredibly disorienting.

People

Thinking

Waiting

Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It’s embarrassing.

Embarrassing

Every time I think that I’ve pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I’ve written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

Thinking

Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it’s true that, what, two out of six people in this city are starving? That’s true, but that is only true because the conditions we live under are completely wrong – that should not be true, and it is. And in something like Sarah Polley’s film, her fictions deliver so much truth. The retellings and the simulations and the theatrical aspects are what deliver all the truth.

Film

Mean

People

George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I’ve met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He’s a really sweet guy. He’s a big fan of my music now, too. I spent an enormous amount of time reading his work.

Guy

Reading

Sweet

Have you seen this video of these cows who have been in a dairy farm, a really shitty one, their entire lives, and they’re let out into a field, and they’re literally jumping with joy? It’s crazy. I don’t have any trouble completely becoming that cow. There’s no “What is it really like to be a cow?” kind of question anymore. There’s no question at that moment whether I understand you completely. I think there is, in that moment, a possible total sympathy. Total sharing.

Crazy

Joy

Thinking

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Helping

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Love Is

Mean

Memories

Mind

Miserable

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Morning

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People

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Reading

Real

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Sometimes

Song

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Quotes by How to Dress Well

How to Dress Well

“Everything must change, everything must stay the same.” Those are good words to have circling around in my head. I just wish that I was able to deal with them, not by singing, but by helping myself. But singing helps, too.

A lot of electronic-based musicians give very low-risk performances, and it’s fun to hear your favorite band play live on a big speaker, but the live context is about the moment of risk and that moment of possible failure.

Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It’s embarrassing.

Every time I think that I’ve pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I’ve written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I’ve met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He’s a really sweet guy. He’s a big fan of my music now, too. I spent an enormous amount of time reading his work.

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