Doseone Quotes

I’m at best on stage. It’s one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.

Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it’s completely different; tape is not running – life is running, and cannot be rewound.

I’ve always been aggressive and an underdog, and my dad was worried that I would always be that: constantly seeking inspiration from negativity.

I’m not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it ’til I’m 50 so that it’s the purest amber of my one way.

The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn’t fake it.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I’m concerned with other things, and they’re very valid.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don’t really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

I’d love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I’m saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

I’m not musically trained and I’m not all these other things. I’m creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I can’t really make these perfect minimal musical executions – all the things that would be nice with all these refined poems.

I’ve been writing a lot about just the aspects of luck and being picked, and how of course it’s always how one perceives themselves in the world, as a bit of a scapegoat or a bit of a hero. Everyone generally has about a 60/40 split that volleys, between those two.