54 Quotes by Frankie Cosmos

If I could have a record that represents every stage of my life, I'd be putting out one a month. Everything is always changing, and so is the way that I feel about stuff.

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.

I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.

The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever.

I really liked punk music and experimental music that my brother was taking me to go see in the city, when I was probably, like, 13 years old. I was seeing a lot of teenagers making 'weird' music, and I think that was probably a big part of the reason that I actually started to play myself.

It was a really long process, dropping out of college. I was there for a semester, then I would take a semester off and go on tour, then I would go back for a semester.

I'm always the one sitting at the merch table and talking to everyone at the show - and I think it's because I have this deep fear that if I'm not approachable or I'm not there, people are going to think I'm a brat.

I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.