"A lot of my songwriting comes from a desire to open myself up to nature and the universe, experiences with love, my subconscious, childhood memories, imagination and various cocktails of each." -- Christopher Lynch
“I want to confront existence itself; I want to shout into the infinite void.”
"The curiosity of growth, the growth of perception, and accepting the fact that no matter what, we're still changing, and still growing. Whether we're saying that literally or figuratively is up to the listener."
"I started listening to Ella Fitzgerald and Louie Armstrong and Billie Holiday and I fell in love with it... It's not the stuff that I grew up on because I didn't grow up in America, but I'm glad I got to discover it as an older person, because I...
"I try not to think at all. If I pre-think anything, it's usually bad."
This year, a playfully untraditional MP3 blog called LYFSTYL and an experimental psychedelic film company called Synesthesiae Films decided to create Celestial Summer, a compilation inspired by free ambient sounds released by NASA in decades past.
"When I am lucky, I realize that so much of what informs the content that I am working with directly relates to what I surround myself with, and that can create a proactive net wherein all of the people and things around me get painted into the...
"I’ve always wished that art could attract the same kind of crowd and procure the same sort of enthusiasm [as punk rock basement shows], so we birthed DoodleDrag." -- Marissa P