Quotes from Ariel Pink

That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.

When a song blows your mind the first time you hear it, you don't know where it's going. It's blowing your mind as it's unfolding. Then there's that sensation that you're actually going to remember the song.

I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man.

I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good review, I'm like, "Well, one more year, guys. We bought ourselves another year".

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.

I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

I'd like to be seen as a normal, attractive person with good values.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.