I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of … - David Longstreth

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I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.

David Longstreth

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

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Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

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Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.

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You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done. "

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The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you have.

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There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.

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