Top 60 Borns Quotes

I like the idea of creating from your inner youth. You don’t have to think too hard about it. Just make what feels good.

My music diet growing up was lots of sugar. Lots of retro-pop sugar. Motown, disco. A lot of English rock, like the Turtles, the Zombies, Bowie and stuff like that.

I grew up watching ‘The Tonight Show‘ and Jimmy Fallon on ‘SNL.’

It’s all about the art, really, at the end of the day.

No one pursued music professionally in my family but they are all music lovers.

I like to put coconut oil in my hair if it’s looking dry. It’s so unruly. It has a mind of its own.

I guess that’s always the mystery of music. It’s like why does this song make me feel so grey or why does it make me feel sad or happy or nostalgic and so I’m most fascinated by breaking that down in my music.

I want people to know me in my home state. I want their approval.

If you‘ve never been to Michigan, everyone thinks it’s completely rural. It’s a destination state. You don’t really drive through; you’re going there for a reason.

I have a few friends who are amazing stylists, so I owe them a lot.

I grew up with a big backyard that led to the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.

I really like intimate venues because it feels like everyone in the audience is in on all our inside jokes.

I really like small, intimate shows, but there’s nothing like playing at a festival. It’s a completely different experience. Everyone is just a little more primal; they can get away with more things.

You should always read the ingredients in coconut water. It should say 100% coconut water.

I don’t wash my hair that often, to be honest.

I’m influenced by a lot of different genres of music. So I’m constantly trying to rework production and make things interesting in the live show and on records.

I did a lot of magic shows growing up. My dad is a graphic designer so he helped me brand myself and create a logo. So I was just rollin’ with the magician crowd for a while. But I was really young, 10 to 13, doing table magic and balloon animals at this Italian restaurant.

I don’t want to make a living. I want to make a life.

I had a band when I was in middle school, but I was the drummer. I kind of thought if I was going to be in a band, I’d be the drummer. I’m innately drawn to rhythm. But we didn’t have any shows. We just jammed in our parents‘ basement.

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can’t look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It’s human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don’t. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.

I kind of lose my mind a little bit if I’m not making something.

When I wrote ‘Dopamine,’ I was so enamored by Los Angeles and finally making music I was really excited about.

Yeah, moving to Los Angeles definitely influenced my sound.

There’s a book called ‘The Baron in the Trees.’ A friend got that for me because I was kind of a tree-dwelling nomad for a bit. I kind of associate myself with the book.

I have these lacy shirts that look kind of like my grandma‘s curtains that I wear.

When I was growing up, there were a few musicians who would have regular gigs at restaurants, and I always thought it was so cool and unexpected how they would spontaneously perform. Being the ambitious kid that I was, I got into it and really studied it. I was so inspired by it.

Anything that makes life more of a dance party I’m very much okay with.

There’s beautiful things about tour – you’re seeing the world, spreading music and I’m able to call that what I do. But it’s about living lightly and abandoning things.

I try to challenge myself.

We’re always trying to make advancements in the arts and technology, so it’s somewhat inevitable that we’re going to make holograms of people.

No, I don’t think songwriting is emotionally challenging – I feel like it’s almost a way to sort through your emotions and put them out there.

Hopefully I inspire people just to lose themselves a little bit. That’s what I enjoy doing on stage: challenging myself with a new territory, like performing differently, moving differently, singing differently, just let people know that it’s okay just to do something that they’ve never done before.

My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child‘s mind.

When I first moved to L.A., I lived in the Hills in kind of a wooded area that was just really chill.

My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren’t expecting.

I always go thrift shopping wherever I am.

A magic show and a concert are very similar in the way I like keeping things a mystery and not doing them the same way every time. The listener and the audience never know what’s going to happen next.

As far as playing instruments, it just feels good to have it under your hands. Cause sometimes those instruments have minor imperfections. Sometimes because they’re so old, they’re always out of tune a little bit.

My mom’s really into astrology and she‘s always telling me about the moon cycles and stuff like that.

My first CD started as a studio project and I record everything with one other guy, so I didn’t have a band. That’s kind of how I like to do it, though. I like to create it with one other person, this guy, Tommy English, who produces everything. And then I go out on the road with a band who interprets it live.

I’m a professional musician.

In 2016, I was pretty green. I was budding. Some flowers were shooting off.

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I’m most comfortable on the piano.

I don’t like washing away your body‘s natural oils and pheromones. Those are good. You have to keep those.

A lot of people think I’m a chick. It happens the most at airports. The flight attendants will always say, ‘Have a nice flight, Ms. Borns.’ It must be the hair.

I’m always trying to top the last show.

I’m not growing out my hair just to be androgynous.

I feel like I’m always just trying to write better music and keep topping myself.

I just like the obstacle course of figuring out something.

The ultimate language of love is music… The ultimate connector.

I like a lot of older, ’60s or ’70s-style songwriting.

I have the luxury of having the choice to perform and go up on stage every night.

I feel like music is always alive and well.

It’s very easy in the studio to get overzealous with your vocal takes, thinking, ‘Oh yeah, I can do it over and over. I can sing at the top of my range for this whole song.’ But when you’re doing it every night on the road, it’s pretty intense.

Circuses don’t treat their ‘performers‘ very well – whipping them, trying to make them terrified.

There’s this poet named Walter Benton, I really like his stuff. He always uses landscapes as a metaphor for the female body.

When you listen to music, you can tell if it’s a real love song or not.

I remember seeing an interview from the Bee Gees and they were like, ‘The biggest competition to the Bee Gees is the Bee Gees.’ They just kept trying to top themselves and write better songs, and I’m just always trying to do that.

My folks bought a baby grand piano and that’s where I did the majority of figuring out the songs I heard on the stereo.