"I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist."
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"For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing."
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"The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me.""
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"Some kid can say, "Hey, I really want you to play my town in Switzerland, or Sweden, or Latvia," and they could have a fun night at the show. On the other hand, all those kids could have a record that means something to them in a more personal way a couple months down the road. The live band is a really important thing for us, but my focus is on the album now."
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"I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience."
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"Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up."
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"There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down."
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"I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition."
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"We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues."
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"I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us."
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"There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work."
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"To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached."
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"I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all."
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"Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money."
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"There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art."
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"I feel like every great record is like a world in itself."
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"The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written."
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"Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met..."
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"When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings."
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"I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do."
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