Autre Ne Veut
Autre Ne Veut
Arthur Ashin, better known by his stage name Autre Ne Veut, is an American singer-songwriter and musician from New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
CountryUnited States of America
basic chords decided good guitar high inherently itself lends music picked playing starting teaching
In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar.
bands based built careers good half high kid life magic relationships time town
There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all.
cool high music outlet safe stable
I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music because I didn't feel comfortable being a soloist. It was a cool, safe space for me musically.
definitely diagnosed gotten
I've never been to a psychiatrist so have never gotten to the point where I could be formally diagnosed with any disorder. But I definitely have anxiety.
anybody liked maybe outside totally twelve
When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It's totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don't think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists.
michael soundtrack tapes
My first super-worn-out tapes were Michael Jackson's 'Bad' and the soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing.' The soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing' is actually really phenomenal.
ended life music time wasting
Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it's just something that is life blood. If I'm not participating in some way, I feel like I'm wasting my time.
backing cool format glass hard monk music people philip pop song terry top totally tracks trying
I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.
break internal permits realm spent stuff
I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.
constant existing innate within
There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.
politics though
Katy Perry's politics I could probably do without, though I have friends who have interacted with her that say she's very nice.
front sing written
I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.
record worked
I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.
utter
I started singing the second I could utter sound.