The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

Chuck Inglish

Categorized in : Me Cool Being Chicago

Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.

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I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.

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I tried to make a 'When Doves Cry' in a rap version. I used a lot of instruments and I broke it down like I thought Prince would do, and that's the song I sent to Big Boi.

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The '65 Impala is pretty much me as a car.

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Grills are how to achieve a great flavor on meats and vegetables. They bring people together. The smell of them getting started is therapeutic.

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I'm into emulation, not imitation.

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Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.

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I wanted to give 'Droptops' away for free because it doesn't sound like my album. It's way more like a nostalgic Cool Kids sound, but that's me too.

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Fans are essential in the California heat. The ones with movement keep the air flow active - I need that.

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A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing to me.

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It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.

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The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.

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I'm thinking about recording everything to tape like it's 1991 and seeing how that sounds.

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I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

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I want to be a band that people haven't seen.

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