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My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not, I'm just making a fool of myself for the hundredth time, and that wasn't part of the plan, initially. I'd be happier not having any kind of public presence whatsoever and just hiding behind the sleeves of the CD.

- Ariel Pink

Career, Behind, Part, Initially

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

- Ariel Pink

Never, See, Always, Revising

The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with the hoodie. But what you don't get to see in most of those pics is that I had these red clogs on that had, like, eyeballs on the ends of them that I drew on. That speaks a little bit more to what I was going after, stylistically.

- Ariel Pink

Guy, Had, Bit, Stylistically

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

- Ariel Pink

My Life, Very, Stevie, Huge Influence

Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

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Pink, Doing, Always, Haunted

People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.

- Ariel Pink

More, Should, Consider, Passive

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.

- Ariel Pink

Love, Doing, Big, Big Question

Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit introspective, a little bit morbid. I was small for my age, so I was bullied and that kind of stuff.

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Small, Like, Phase, Introspective

That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?

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Signature, Importance, Why Not

Maybe by making people feel uncomfortable, I tap into that uncanny quality that is a part of the scariest, weirdest things that you remember happening to you when you were a kid.

- Ariel Pink

Making, Maybe, Tap, Scariest

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.

- Ariel Pink

Myself, Enemies, Them, No Friends

When a song blows your mind the first time you hear it, you don't know where it's going. It's blowing your mind as it's unfolding. Then there's that sensation that you're actually going to remember the song.

- Ariel Pink

Mind, Song, Going, Blowing

I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.

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Other, References, About, Descriptions

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

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Strong, Protect, Lineage, Impulse

I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.

- Ariel Pink

United States, Hoard, Lawful, Defined

I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.

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Thought, Some, Always, Controversial

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

- Ariel Pink

Myself, Think, Threw, Best Intentions

I'm not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and 'get real with myself' - come on. I'm already too old, and I'm lucky to have a job at all.

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Lucky, Old, Going, Bedroom

I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

- Ariel Pink

Business, Hollywood, Movie, No Business

I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.

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Kid, Rainy Day, Very, Rainy

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

- Ariel Pink

Myself, Thought, Actual, Stirring

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

- Ariel Pink

Love, Embrace, Everybody, Facets

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?

- Ariel Pink

My Life, Fact, Been, Do You Know

I probably would never be caught wearing a baseball cap. Hats are difficult to me because they tend to be too big for my head. They don't fit right, and I feel ridiculous.

- Ariel Pink

Big, Caught, Wearing, Cap

I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

- Ariel Pink

Country, Privileges, Brought, Brutality

I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know what that means - they think the Beach Boys. I'm thinking more like Sunset Strip in the 1960s and stuff like that.

- Ariel Pink

Music, Thinking, Sound, Beach Boys

In the years between 2000 and 2004, I always got the feeling that people were just starting to hear about me, and they were all late to the game. I'd be out playing shows for records that I recorded back in 1999 that were just coming out.

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Game, Records, About, Starting

You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.

- Ariel Pink

Song, Records, Put, Titles

That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.

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Talent, Feel, Make, Uneasy

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

- Ariel Pink

Pain, Castles, Making, Corpse

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