54 Quotes by Frankie Cosmos

I can be very social, but often, it weighs down on me later that the social thing was a put-on. I feel like my way of dealing with not wanting to go out is, I just don't. I can't bring myself to.

I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs.

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it.

Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can.

It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time.

My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging.

When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do.

Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate for years and keep writing about it even better than you did then.