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It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people. — How to Dress Well Love people Copy Share Image
The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them. — How to Dress Well Music Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense. — How to Dress Well Feels Copy Share Image
Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing. — How to Dress Well Button Copy Share Image
Playing live is so weird because I go out there and I try so hard to give something, which will be recognized.… — How to Dress Well Giving Copy Share Image
A lot of electronic-based musicians give very low-risk performances, and it's fun to hear your favorite band play live on a big… — How to Dress Well Fun Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later,… — How to Dress Well Interesting Copy Share Image
"Everything must change, everything must stay the same." Those are good words to have circling around in my head. I just wish… — How to Dress Well Change Copy Share Image
Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The… — How to Dress Well 21st century Copy Share Image
Luckily, like for instance the song "Suicide Dream 1," I wrote it out of such an incredibly powerful state that the melody… — How to Dress Well Dream Copy Share Image
George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a… — How to Dress Well Big fan Copy Share Image
Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like… — How to Dress Well Thinking Copy Share Image
As someone who listens almost exclusively to contemporary hip-hop and R&B, I definitely like "No Bullshit" by Chris Brown, and melodically I'm… — How to Dress Well Bullshit Copy Share Image
I believe, and this is something I also learned from Alice Munro, that there's a moment where the personal becomes totally universal.… — How to Dress Well Animal Copy Share Image
I don't have one thing I go back to, but we listen to a lot of music in the bus, and we… — How to Dress Well Bus Copy Share Image
I have a German friend who works on memorialization. The last generation of Nazis and Holocaust survivors are now dying. So literally,… — How to Dress Well Done Copy Share Image
Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it's true that, what, two out… — How to Dress Well Being true Copy Share Image
I do think that we're pretty future-obsessed right now, and I think that capitalism works best when we have a very short… — How to Dress Well Capitalism Copy Share Image
I didn't sit down and write a song like, "I want to write a song about this," but I just spent so… — How to Dress Well Affirming Copy Share Image
I feel like real thoughts and emotions involve the whole being. And they also outstrip little personal quirks, and they outstrip biography.… — How to Dress Well Emotion Copy Share Image
I have this problem where I get incredibly, miserably nervous every single show. This is part of why touring is so exhausting… — How to Dress Well Anxiety Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of dystopian literature tends to be really moralizing and just doesn't tend to give credence to the… — How to Dress Well Books Copy Share Image
I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete… — How to Dress Well Aspects of life Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that most of my intellectual postures and a lot of my intellectualism is super defensive and really symptomatic… — How to Dress Well Aliens Copy Share Image
Traveling is amazing. You meet so many great, positive people. You get to see new faces all the time. I don't think… — How to Dress Well Complicated Copy Share Image
"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and… — How to Dress Well Chorus Copy Share Image
What I'm confessing is that I've grown to a point where I feel like I should have more answers, and I don't.… — How to Dress Well Thinking Copy Share Image
That's another thing in Alice Munro: it's always, like, some middle-aged woman who is going to cheat on her husband, and there's… — How to Dress Well Cheat Copy Share Image
Have you seen this video of these cows who have been in a dairy farm, a really shitty one, their entire lives,… — How to Dress Well Crazy Copy Share Image
In Dardenne brothers' films is a really small kind of humanity. It's not like the titanic "humanity" of humanism, it's much more… — How to Dress Well All kinds Copy Share Image
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