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I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

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I've engineered my life so that my only value in this world is in my writing, which is really dangerous, because if it's a failure, then my life is meaningless.

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People used to see things that disgusted them and say, 'I never want to see that again.' Now we've reached the point where we see things that are disturbing and revolting to us, but we want to see more and more of it.

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You can choose to live in love or choose to live in fear.

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Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

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I love the exhilaration of feeling a pull quote come out of your mouth. The words just taste better.

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Interpretive thinking, as an art form, is dying.

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People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.

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J. Tillman was kind of an alter ego. There was a lot I didn't want people to know about my real life. With Father John Misty, I leave everything in: so much so that I lose sleep before these albums come out because there is always a line or two in there where I'm just like, 'This is not going to go down very well.'

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I think Kanye West is a hilarious writer.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 3rd, 1981

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