Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going. — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet. — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like 'Pullhair Rubeye,' or something a little bit more organic than that. — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
It's weird, in New York, it's like the big theme of everything is folk music and interacting with people. Maryland is where the landscape of our music comes from, it was more like, let's walk around. People are saying that we are part of some sort of folk scene. We don't feel connected with it. We do live in the… — Avey Tare Copy Share
Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling." — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people. — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
