The Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists?

Courtney Taylor-Taylor: Oh God, just enjoy it. Enjoy that you’re a new band and you’re excited about getting into a band and being gone and getting four days off work at the pizza joint you work at. It’s like, fuck, man, I wish I could go back. That’s something that gets me every single day of my life. I can’t be seven years old in the summer again, I can’t be a twenty-nothing again, I can’t be a teenager, I can’t even go back three years and do it. Ugh. The art and the commerce and all that, I know that’s what you’re looking for in an answer, “What you really need to do, man, is develop a web presence.” No, f**k that, just enjoy your f**king life and do what everyone does, document it, hashtag the f**k out of everything, whatever, that’s cool, but really, be present. Hang out with people and really milk life. Every day. Just get as much as you can out of it because it’s not just going to give you sh*t. Jackie Onassis said, “Don’t expect much from life.”