Julien Baker Quotes

Julien Baker

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 29, 1995

With my own music, I'm much more reluctant to say, you know, 'This record slaps!'

Julien Baker

Writing from life is how I feel most comfortable.

Julien Baker

Everybody wants to have an empirical analysis of a relationship ending, but sometimes there's not that much clarity, and that's OK.

Julien Baker

Writing songs has always been a process where I divulge a lot, just because music is a tool for me to sift through and process intense emotions. But having music be my primary occupation has changed how I interact with art.

Julien Baker

My music is not always about getting my ideas heard, it's about letting other people feel empowered to have their ideas heard by example.

Julien Baker

I hope we can dismantle the idea that the entire south is sitting on our porches spitting tobacco and hating gay people.

Julien Baker

I didn't grow up on country and blues, I was just a kid listening to VH1 and then I realized I needed to expand my musical horizons. Now I have a deep appreciation for southern heritage music.

Julien Baker

Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess.

Julien Baker

Many of my songs just come together in quatrains because that's how a hymn goes.

Julien Baker

I do have a little bit of trouble with candor around the things that I used to do. I think it's probably just resultant of shame and embarrassment and not wanting to be defined by the life that I used to live.

Julien Baker

When you have an addictive personality, you fixate upon things easily. Routines and behaviors, and ritual, becomes very important.

Julien Baker

I think there's seasons of life. It oscillates.

Julien Baker

There are people who are explicit and people who are implicit, right? Like I say, 'I think there is a God,' but I've seen Christian metalcore bands do altar calls at their shows and be like, 'Come get saved right now.' I think there's a subtler way, which is to say I'm being honest with my beliefs.

Julien Baker

I'm not going to force your participation in a conversation, I'm going to say I can be an example that these things can exist and don't have to be mutually exclusive. Like being a queer artist and being a Christian. Those things don't have to be mutually exclusive and I'm just going to be honest about them so that you know.

Julien Baker

I think what kids who like heavy music are really looking for is the honesty and candour of it.

Julien Baker

The thing that is comforting about being a touring musician is whenever I say bye to my friends, I'm like, 'I don't know when I'll see you again but it'll be sooner than I think and if it's not soon then it won't matter.'

Julien Baker

There are people I haven't seen for a year and we will do a show or something and when we hang out it'll be this instant endearment. I'm like, 'Our lives, the cosmos, are intersecting, and this will bring us closer together again. I have no doubt.'

Julien Baker

Especially with women in music there is this unnecessary competitive element. And, like, why? Why do people do things where they try to put peers up against each other?

Julien Baker

It's just nice to have people around and see people actively trying to construct a community of mutual support around music.

Julien Baker

Those parts of myself that are too ugly or dangerous are precisely the things I feel convicted to share.

Julien Baker