110 Quotes by Ariel Pink

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

If you don't appeal to kids, to the zeitgeist, you get thrown on the scrapheap.

The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.

I have lots of friends, but I'm probably a terrible friend to all of them, even my family. I wouldn't be surprised if I found myself with no friends later on in life. My friends become my enemies.

R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.

Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.