Frankie Cosmos

If I ever go back to college, I'd study art education. ”

It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time. ”

Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time I pick up an instrument. ”

I played my first show when I was 17, and that was a big moment. I realized it was something I could keep doing. ”

I don't even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to strangers over the course of months... I just can't imagine having to do that. ”

I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it. ”

I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things. ”