I sang "Patience" by Guns N' Roses for my sixth grade talent show and I wanted to be an actor when I was younger. It was all very, very theatrical. It was only later that I separated the two and thought of myself as quite the opposite of an actor.

- Ariel Pink

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I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.

- Ariel Pink

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I'm a product of my environment.

- Ariel Pink

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I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.

- Ariel Pink

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I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.

- Ariel Pink

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The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

- Ariel Pink

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I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

- Ariel Pink

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I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

- Ariel Pink

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That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.

- Ariel Pink

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When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.

- Ariel Pink

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I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.

- Ariel Pink

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I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

- Ariel Pink

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I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

- Ariel Pink

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