Ariel Pink Quotes

My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.

In the beginning, yes. I didn't like it because I wanted people to know me by Gabriel Iglesias, not by Fluffy.

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.

I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.

I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.'

A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.

I don't even know what my artist name would be. Would it be Logan Paul? Would it just be Logan? I don't know.

Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there; it's about show and entertainment. But an alter ego is very dangerous for me. Because I am the guy who will become lost in that.

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

I wrote and recorded a song that I highly doubt I will release. The lyrics are somewhat risque. I may have to create an alter ego, and she can be the 'singer.'

Music is the most private place in my life, but it's become the most public part of who I am.

I've always really liked the idea of an artist name, like a cover-up, even though in my music I'm being very personal in the stuff that I write about.

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

I'm not an impressionist as such, and I never will be, so the sketches where I was supposed to be a famous person probably weren't my best work.

I have very strong feelings about a lot of things. I am sometimes reluctant to come straight to the forefront with it. You know, first and foremost, I'm a musician. I'm a songwriter.

Rumours of me being Banksy are greatly exaggerated. We are all Banksy.

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.

For years, I kept the two separate: Michael Horse the artist and Michael Horse the actor. I like the acting, but I'm an artist; that's my identity.

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

So many kids meet me and they get disappointed. They ask me to wear shades and behave in the way I do in my songs. Then I have to explain it to them that I am like this in real life, more composed, chilled out and cool.

None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.