I don’t think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry. Ariel Pink Read Quote
Maybe by making people feel uncomfortable, I tap into that uncanny quality that is a part of the scariest, weirdest things that you remember happening to you when you were a kid. Ariel Pink Read Quote
I think I’ve been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I’m a lot like I was when I was 15. Ariel Pink Read Quote
I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn’t really have a youth – I sublimated all that into my identity and my music. Ariel Pink Read Quote
If you are going to go to Heaven, I’m going to Heaven. But I don’t believe in Heaven. Ariel Pink Read Quote
Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I’d never booked a show in my life, but that I’d played so many because I’d been invited? Ariel Pink Read Quote
I’m not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and ‘get real with myself’ – come on. I’m already too old, and I’m lucky to have a job at all. Ariel Pink Read Quote
R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life. Ariel Pink Read Quote
I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up – generating – the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press. Ariel Pink Read Quote
I always thought, ‘I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don’t do that.’ But of course, it wasn’t really up to me. Ariel Pink Read Quote
