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  • "I'll Still Destroy You" song is lovingly talking about how we change our states of mind, whether it's weed or wine or whatever. It's an ingredient in my life. Sometimes we overindulge ourselves. I've always been okay with that in a funny way. I sing about that stuff a lot, and the dangers of it.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Dessner Quotes , Weed Quotes , Song Quotes
  • Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Dessner Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • In fact, after Donald Trump won, some of the relief of finishing record was to turn off all the politics for a while. There were some songs that had more of the political stuff that we just decided to wait on and put aside. A few weeks after the election, I stopped watching cable news and just unplugged. My way of dealing with the new situation we're in was to just work on something that I care about.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Dessner Quotes , Song Quotes , Waiting Quotes
  • The Planned Parenthood 7" project is an example of us putting our noses to the grindstone on and trying to make a little difference. Working on that was my way of handling my own emotions about Donald Trump. I was talking about politics for so long, I just kind of ran out of juice on that.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Dessner Quotes , Long Quotes , Trying Quotes
  • We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Dessner Quotes , Song Quotes