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“One thing about spending years writing about the most obnoxious, obscure, abrasive music possible was trying to convince a mainstream audience that this was worth their time. It was really good training to convince those who are apathetic about unions that unions should matter and they are pretty cool.’’
“A lot of people who play music with me, and a lot of people in town, are like, ‘Ella’s the baby.’ But these songs are like, ‘Oh, she’s growing up now.'”
“I reached out to Jesse [Malin] and said, ‘Jonesy is toasting you a lot with this song and we are putting out a new version, and would you like to be a part of it?’ He wrote back immediately that he was in.”
“I have a bit of imposter syndrome, and I still don’t consider myself a singer in a band, which is insane because I have been doing this for 20 years. But I don’t. Part of that is what keeps making me write music.”
The Australian indie artist come to the NJ area Sept 28 and 30.
“I think people read too much into it, and whether kids feel gay, straight, trans, whatever, maybe they learn to be an ally that day at Pride, and that this is a positive day and will learn to include everybody.”
“The only measure of success with being in a band and being able to play music with your friends and peers is having fun with it, and having it be a fulfilling and amazing experience.”
“I was like, ‘Woah, this is something.’ I was having fun, and by October I had 30,000 [followers]. Now I am getting paid and they are giving me money, I decided to keep going and go hard as fuck.”
“I had a gut feeling, and if it scares me I probably have to do it, and get out of my comfort zone. The reason why I stayed away from music was because I was afraid of it, so I had to face my fears.”
“Every time I tune my guitar to drop D I’m like, ‘Yeah, fuck you.’’’
“The ones we’ve played have really been proving themselves, which isn’t always the case. Translating a song to the live set after recording it can be a challenge. They’re hard, but we like that. We’re all at our limits playing and singing this music.”
“Right now, the idea is that you walk in and put your bike on the stand. Someone will help you out and give you recommendations on tools to use. I’d rather see someone take more time and learn the right way, than me doing it in four seconds with my muscle memory.’’