Behinds Quote by Avey Tare

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

— Avey Tare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

— Avey Tare

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

— Avey Tare

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

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic…

— Avey Tare