"Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Devendra Banhart

“Would ask me, what do you want to be when you're older? and I'd be like, a singer, and they'd be like, what do you really want to be? and I'd be like, oh, I really want to be a singer.”
“I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.”
“There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others”
“We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.”
“At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.”
“My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.”
“You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to roll with it.”
“Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.”

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