Ariel Pink

“There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like it's not a big deal. That, to me, is a crime.”

“I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.”

“I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.”

“I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.”

“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?”

“I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man.”

“Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.”

“That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.”

“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.”

“I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.”

“We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.”

“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.”

“When a song blows your mind the first time you hear it, you don't know where it's going. It's blowing your mind as it's unfolding. Then there's that sensation that you're actually going to remember the song.”

“If you don't appeal to kids, to the zeitgeist, you get thrown on the scrapheap.”

“I'd like to be seen as a normal, attractive person with good values.”

“If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.”

“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.”

“I know when somebody's heard my music. I can hear it in their music.”

“People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.”

“I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.”