“Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to...” — Aaron Dessner Quote

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

But I'd say recording and playing on stage are two completely different things. Being up there in front of all those people is like jumping off a cliff into icy water. The recording process is a totally different energy.

Anyone who's speaking up about anything becomes a target.

Sometimes my brother and I - we're twins, and sometimes we joke that we're like a two-headed monster. We can be hard to deal with because we don't break ranks; we stick together.

After years of touring you experience music festivals that are mostly the same - where you copy and paste the same experience into a muddy field in California or a muddy field in England.

From my perspective, if I say that I'm done, I would hope - and I trust - that my corner would throw in the towel for me.

I come from theatre and there have been roles where my job was to stand in the corner, with a sword in my hands, for two hours. And I was happy doing that.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know what's around the corner.

You hear a lot of players say: 'Well, the manager put the ball down and stuck it in the top corner.'... I'm not one of them.

Anything called the Teflon Corner is not sweet for free-soloing.