I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life. Julien Baker Read Quote
If 1,500 people are gonna see me and they each pay $20, I want to give them everything that I possibly can. They just made an exchange that allows me to live a dream of mine since I was a child. And that’s not lost on me. So I want to expend every ounce of power and energy I have. Julien Baker Read Quote
Some shows feel very reverent – when you’re in a seated theater, no one really sings. I love it when people sing! I wish people would sing all the time. Because one of my favorite things when I get to do as a musician is step away from the microphone and listen to everyone sing together. Julien Baker Read Quote
The thing about music is that it gives voice and names to anguish and also addresses how to comfort it. Julien Baker Read Quote
When I am writing alone I try to just write for myself without thinking, like, this will go on a record. Julien Baker Read Quote
Songs like ‘Everything To Help You Sleep’ or ‘Claws in Your Back’ took a little bit more grappling with the actual poetry for me to feel comfortable with the song. And there’s a little bit more song crafting going on, and I had a specific idea in mind of the imagery I wanted to evoke. Julien Baker Read Quote
Appointments’ is largely just derived from pieces of dialogue with another person, and then also what’s going on inside of my own mind, or a person’s own mind. They’re intended to be a little bit exaggerated and a satire of things that we’re not sure are entirely true, or maybe biased. Julien Baker Read Quote
Especially in the sphere of social activism, I think we tend to unwittingly conceptualize progress or revolution as black and white and having a clear beginning and end. Julien Baker Read Quote
If I can say so without sounding presumptuous, I want to model women being collaborative instead of competitive. Julien Baker Read Quote
