“Making these remixes had been like going to school for me. […] It was a good way to learn the software, to define the world I was making.”

“I’m trying to tap the collective unconscious. I’m trying to find a seat in the front, so I don’t get car sick.”

“The 2013 Tribeca Film Festival was an embarrassment of riches.”

“Daddy, no one’s dancing.”

“Wolf Eyes are finished fucking around. I know how to write good Wolf Eyes songs, and music theory has done nothing but make the process more efficient.”

“I’m fascinated by the performer-audience concept; am I supposed to give you everything, or are you compelled enough to ask me questions and have me answer you?”

“I get bored easily, so maybe I’m attracted to eccentric personalities. I guess I like having really volatile front men.”

“It’s a weird thing to make your own ‘best-of’ album out of 21 songs.”

“I’m really interested to see what a band looks like in 20 years, because I love bands.”

“It’s undeniably the language we speak [R&B], but we’re trying to transcend that language.”

“The whole point of music is that it is separate from words, really.”

Nonfiction. Softcover. 264 pages. Chris Ruen

“I saw how people cast their racism, or maybe not intentional racism, but ignorance. People project onto you what they think they understand ‘you’ as being.”

“He grabbed the crotch portion constantly, moved it around, then let it flop down like a sagging elephant’s trunk”

“There’s transcendence in those tacos and bad drinks and overworked indie bands.”