"The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and I played drums for a year in sixth grade. Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Frankie Cosmos

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“When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.”
“Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.”
“The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country youre in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybodys personality.”

Source : "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 5, 2013.
“Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!”
“Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.”
“collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.”
“Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.”
“When I was writing some of songs for the record in Galapagos it was the feeling of being there I wanted to evoke more than anything. I remember hearing all the parts of the songs in my mind when I was walking around over the lava fields.”

Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

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