When I talk about what I’m feeling, I can get outside of it and analyze it. I think that process, especially on ‘Sprained Ankle,’ happened after it was recorded. All of those songs are just documentations of how I felt at that time. I was writing them because I needed to. Julien Baker Read Quote
There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive. Julien Baker Read Quote
When I was in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, Green Day was my formative entry to punk. I wish I could say I was listening to Minor Threat and Black Flag, but I wasn’t. Bay Area punk bands were doing it right. Julien Baker Read Quote
Ultimately, I feel like there is just a pervasive evidence of God. Though I know that is maybe a controversial thing to say. Julien Baker Read Quote
My dad took me to the skate park every single weekend to see alternative bands. Julien Baker Read Quote
Sometimes you want to complain and be like, ‘Why? Life is so horrible.’ But it doesn’t change that there are redeeming qualities and a universal capacity for redemption and grace. There are still things that make it worth it and bearable. Julien Baker Read Quote
There’s no musician who just wakes up one day and decides, ‘This is what I want to do.’ It takes some development. Julien Baker Read Quote
Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on – I took piano lessons for a brief time, but then my dad had a guitar and when he was not playing it, I would pick it up and mess with it. He jokes that I used to complain that it hurt my fingers. Julien Baker Read Quote
I feel like it’s a necessary part of musical development to go through that phase where you think that your favorite style of music is the only style of music, and I thought that for a while. Julien Baker Read Quote
