I prefer not to name it.

Sure. Plus that’s how one gets good at sex, which is about sharing.

I light sugar daddies on fire like Notre Dame and then eat them like crème brûlée. Nah, but for real, I think that quote from the fader interview is corny. The journalist had an agenda, a positive one, but an agenda nonetheless. I think I said that because she was prompting me to say that kind of thing so I eventually gave it to her. I guess one doesn’t eat the patriarchy by saying hype shit but by doing hype shit.

I don’t know, I just listen to my gut.

Ridicule is a harsh word. Mainstream music makes a lot of people happy. Especially in the United States, where poor people have such little help and support from the government. I respect the function of mainstream pop music for people that are over-worked and underpaid. Being able to explore and experience and even understand experimental music is a luxury.

That being said, I guess my romanticism and disassociation from monetary ambition challenges formula because I’m freaky and wanna try new things that get me off rather than get my bank account off. I don’t mind having very little money. That being said, I feel a swell coming up inside me that wants to make a very pop record soon so that I can take care of my sick dad and buy my mom nice things.

No, I just really like that piece. I recorded it out of the airplane headphone jack onto my 404 sampler on my way to Los Angeles. It’s from the part of the movie where Belle is trespassing through the forbidden wing of the castle and she sees the rose floating in the crystal terrarium. One of the themes of the record is the idea of curiosity leading us to trespass. I hope to trespass into the mainstream more. That’s what it felt like when my song Concealer was selected by Chanel for their show. The lyrics of the song are, “this is your brain on lies” – I don’t think anyone listened to the lyrics because is just sounds like a cute pop song.

I have no idea why people think I’m so spiritual. Maybe it’s because I’m kind to people.

‘Good taste’ is wielded as a power so flexing on the slaves and dictators of it allows for new freedoms in personality and glitches in aesthetic elitism. But talking about these dichotomies specifically is almost useless as these bouts of ‘bravery’ or ‘commentary’ in fashion always shift the compass so quickly and are picked up and watered down by corporations the next second.

Silly questions like this could make me angry maybe lol – things are not always what they seem.

Paul Stamets, Big Klit, fasting, and exercise.