A biography for Julien Bakerhasn’t been written yet.
“We always have a great time touring Germany, but one of my favourite museums in the world is Museum Ludwig, an incredible contemporary art museum in Cologne. I could spend all day in it.”
“I'm not losing the wonder in playing music.”
“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.”
“My parents were always playing records: My mom was really into the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, and my dad was more Billy Squire, Whitesnake, '80s hair metal. But I think there's that crucial point where you become an adolescent and you don't want to listen to your parents' music.”
“I like it when I go to a city and it puts its personality out there to be readily experienced.”
“It's just nice to have people around and see people actively trying to construct a community of mutual support around music.”
“Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively.”
“All my heroes are teachers.”
“When I first started playing guitar, I would sit in my room for hours and learn scales.”
“There are still men in the professional or behind the scenes world that are controlling women to build credibility.”
“I think people learn best and are more engaged when it's just normal relatable situations that illustrate the principles they're discussing.”
“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.”
“I think what kids who like heavy music are really looking for is the honesty and candour of it.”
“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.”
“Writing from life is how I feel most comfortable.”
“I don't think that you can just walk through life without all of your experiences informing your perspective on the world.”
“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.”
“My harmonies on 'Me & My Dog' are a little extra.”
“It used to be you would need a couple grand to make a record at a studio. Now, you can do it on freaking GarageBand.”
“With my own music, I'm much more reluctant to say, you know, 'This record slaps!'”