Ariel Pink Quotes

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

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 love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good review, I'm like, "Well, one more year, guys. We bought ourselves another year".

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

I'm a product of my environment.

I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.

That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.

I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.

You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.

I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.

If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.

I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.

I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school and every year I participated in the talent shows and the school plays, all of 'em.

I love having the impulsivity to change course. I think it's key to keeping things fresh.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.

I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that.

I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.