Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.
Our vocal harmonies started to feel like a cop-out: all group-singing, all the time.
I don't really hang out with anyone. I'll hang out with my band. . . but I don't have any friends aside from that.
I was raised up believing I was somehow unique.
The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind. . . It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.
At the end of the day, for people in this position, you just need to make something that feels like you're expressing yourself honestly, something that you'd want to listen to. The rest of the aesthetic is kind of bullshit, and I don't mean that in a negative way - just that it's a choice.
Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.
When it hurts to look back, and you're afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.
The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.