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“I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.”

Will Oldham

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As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits of the…

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I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can…

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Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?

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I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

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To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

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Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in and kind…

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