“Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.” IfsBelieveLittlesBitsSkyLike YouLittle BitHearingBowie Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.” IfsWritingExistenceCreativeEntityBowie Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.” IfsKnowsHardEnoughTurnsRounds Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.” PeopleIfsWayFirstsCommunityGroupsRacistPunkSexistHomophobicDiy Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or "We're in a library for some reason!"” IfsWayFeelsReasonCertainFiveWallBandLibraryBridgesHanging OutInstagramAlleysFull Of Yourself Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it.” IfsThinkingKnowsLongRealHardUpsetGoing AwayAvenues Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.” IfsTryingStoriesSongFocusEventsNewsNews Stories Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
