A collection of some of our favourite quotes pulled from CONTROL interviews over the past year.
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Tom “T” McFarland, Jungle
“It’s just the energy of having ideas and following them through is really special to us and it just creates a momentum. Once you’re in that creative place where you’re not setting yourself any limitations and not saying ‘no’ to any idea, no matter how big or small it is, that’s when you come up with the really nuts stuff that sticks.”
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Joe Talbot, IDLES
“Loving yourself is the key because then you don’t just go with what everyone tells you to go with, you have confidence in who you truly are in your own language. If I’m going to be as honest as possible, I need to really look inwardly and decide who I really want to be. And that isn’t a man, I never wanted to be a man, I just am a man – it’s just my genitalia, the rest is just performative. The more I just celebrate myself, the less I feel like I have to perform to someone else’s rules. I think it’s important to remind young people, children and adults to love themselves and thus maybe, if that language and that rhetoric grew, then more people would be openminded and confident in themselves and thus open to new ideas and new people and not lean towards fascistic right wing governments and so forth.”
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Rakel Mjöll, Dream Wife
“…we somehow avoided all the sharks in the music industry. Because we just did things and didn’t ask for permission, we managed to curb the people that might not have had the best intentions for our band. We didn’t know what we wanted to do at first – we wanted to play and understand ourselves before someone else could understand it for us.”
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Sophie Allison, Soccer Mommy
“…I don’t know how to gauge growth. It’s hard when you’re the person doing it to know if you’re blowing up or whatever. It just feels like steadily stuff gets bigger and bigger…”
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Channel Treshas, Channel Tres
“I’ve been through a lot to get to this point so the EP was a way for me to deal with that musically. That was the spirit behind it while I was making it. A lot of the time I was just getting out certain mental blockages, getting around certain people that were toxic or negative, or not seeing your work, making sure you’re feeding yourself. I was going through that a lot of the time I was making the record. Maybe that’s why that feeling’s in there.”
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Stevie Jackson, Belle & Sebastian
“It’s just always been part of the fabric of every day life, like breathing. I can’t even watch TV without holding a guitar.”
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Theresa Wayman, Warpaint & TT
“I would rather just be at home creating more content and having some time to write, make music and see where it takes me. I’m getting into the more visual aspects of what I’m saying with the music as well and exploring being an artist as opposed to someone who’s in the business of art, you know?
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Charlie Steen, Shame
“Without sounding incredibly fucking cheesy, we’ve known each other since we were kids. Sean and I have been best mates since we were eight, we’ve known each other for way too fucking long. It’s the strongest and weakest point of the band.”
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Jamila Woods
“I still seek out mentors now because there’s only so much I feel I can learn in the traditional school environment. Bringing high school students interested in film onto a video set, that doesn’t cost me anything. It doesn’t take anything away from me but it can give so much to a young person, having that experience. I feel like I saw mentors do that for me, so I want to make sure I always do that and keep thinking of different ways I can do that.”
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Jen Cloher
“We can all step in and lend a voice in support, stand by each other and keep the conversation and the actions towards change moving forward.”
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