A biography for Autre Ne Veuthasn’t been written yet.
“I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.”
“I feel like since I was 27, I was calling myself 30. And then, when it happened, it was like, 'I'm finally here now. This is it.”
“My first super-worn-out tapes were Michael Jackson's 'Bad' and the soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing.' The soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing' is actually really phenomenal.”
“Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.”
“There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.”
“When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It's totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don't think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists.”
“I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on top of that, then we end up in funny territory.”
“I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.”
“I definitely have a little Woody Allen inside of me. That is true.”
“I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.”