“The suburbs have always been like an American version of utopia and a reflection of their hopes and fears. Erika's version of American suburban utopia - which I am renaming the outer ring - is a diverse place, with affordable housing, the possibility for people to have small businesses, which is more realistic in the outer ring than in the city with its huge costs, decent public transportation and the ability to access art and cultural events. That's my dream for America.” PeopleArtDreamAbilityPossibilityReflectionRingsDecentRealisticDiverseSmall BusinessUtopiaTransportationAffordable Author:Erika M. Anderson
“You can always accuse my records of being harrowing or dark or bleak. There is processing of trauma on my records and they contain a lot of healing. As a person who has been watching other's rage for years, instead of having my own tantrums, I keep the feelings inside until I can find a way of making them into music. The songs are like healing spells and it really works for me. When I really do a good job on a song, it gets rid of a weight. As far as hope goes, there is hope that you can heal through processing stuff and make it through to the other side. That's all I can hope for.” FeelingsSongDarkHealingTraumaRageHealGood JobBleakThere Is Hope Author:Erika M. Anderson
“France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.” Dictatorship Author:Jarvis Cocker
“Paris is like a beautiful woman, but she's very haughty, she's not interested in you. She's very nice to look at but you can't quite get it together with her.” TogetherBeautifulNiceNot InterestedBeautiful WomenVery Nice Author:Jarvis Cocker
“Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.” LyingSeductive Author:Jarvis Cocker
“You try and imagine what it must have been like to first see something moving on a screen. It must have blown your mind, because up to then life went by and there was no way to capture it. You could only get one instant and you didn't get the movement. So it's like having a bit of control over time really, because it's happening in real time or what seems to be real time, and then you can play it backwards and you can watch things again and again.” TryingMindRealMovingImagineInstantBeing RealBackwards Author:Jarvis Cocker
“A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.” SongSeriousRhyme Author:Jarvis Cocker
“You know when you're thinking about what you want to be when you grow up, or how you want your life to pan out. I couldn't imagine anything better than living in a hotel so you'd never have to worry about washing up, making the bed, anything like that, and having a servant to come in and play all your favourite TV programmes.” ThinkingWorryGrowing UpImagineServantHotelFavourite Author:Jarvis Cocker
“You have to create a bespoke cultural environment. I know this may be a kind of thing that an old person says, but I feel to quite a large extent I was reared by the TV I watched.” KindEnvironment Author:Jarvis Cocker
“I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that kind of Reithian idea - where you could learn stuff from it. If you put a kid in front of a telly now to be reared by that you'd just have a jibbering idiot, you know what I mean? Just adverts for a start. It's almost like the programmes are an afterthought, the real business of this channel is to sell you things and we're just going to space out those announcements with some crap to watch.” PeopleKindMeanRealKidsIdiotCrap Author:Jarvis Cocker