A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly. Dev Hynes Read Quote
It’s funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that’s not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it. Dev Hynes Read Quote
If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there’s more things that I would like, and it’s just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there’s so much that exists. Dev Hynes Read Quote
The issue I had with the Lightspeed albums was that usually the main purpose with them was to fulfil really dorky musical goals, like, ‘I wonder if I can do that,’ and it was all very personal. It was more that once I’d finished the goal of what the song was, I was kind of done. It was like ticking boxes. Dev Hynes Read Quote
The way it works for me is my sight and sound senses are combined. Every sound I associate with a color and every color I associate with a sound… The way I see things is constant streamers across the room, bouncing off from every touch and every sound. Over the years, I’ve learned what color palates I love most. Dev Hynes Read Quote
I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York, but I feel it more as a father figure or something – this huge presence watching over me. I definitely feel better and work freer here. Dev Hynes Read Quote
Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net – ‘I’m able to execute this; it’s fine.’ Dev Hynes Read Quote
I’m always weary of connotations. I don’t want people to listen to the music I make presently because they liked my previous work, or to dismiss it because they didn’t. I’m guilty of this as well – having preconceptions about other artists – but it’s stupid because all music exists on its own and should be listened to with a clear head. Dev Hynes Read Quote
