” Songs, a while ago, became the medium through which I process most of the information that I receive and feel. But I go back and forth about whether this is all of life or whether you’re missing something important in living and whether or not, as a humanist, you’re abnegating a certain responsibility if this – this art – is just where you are. “
” What genres are good for is being like, ‘Here are the parameters. Here’s something about the way it’s going to make you feel. And here’s something about the subject matter. “
” I got a little baby grand piano off Craigslist for, like, $500. It’s a beautiful instrument that you hear on a bunch of the songs. That’s that piano on ‘Keep Your Name’ and ‘Work Together’ and ‘Little Bubble. “
” The more songs I’ve written, the more I’ve grown interested in telling a story. When I first began, I had this list of opaque phrases where you can make of it what you want. “
” As far as working with Kanye and Solange, that was amazing. After ‘Swing Lo Magellan’, I needed a change. Getting to work in that capacity, writing for other people and working for other people as a writer and as a person who’s not representing it as the front person or whatever – it’s such a different perspective you can get. “
” It’s helpful to just hear things through friends’ ears, people who know you well. I guess when I started Dirty Projectors, when I was, like, 20, I always imagined it would be kind of like an amphibious vehicle: something that could go with me wherever I need to go. That kind of constant change has been in the DNA from the beginning. “
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