Ari Hest Quotes

I started playing frat parties at Cornell. I would just play four-hour shows, mostly cover songs. At first everybody would get a drink while I played my own songs, but that started to change, I liked playing music; I didn't like school. I transferred to NYU to be closer to home and to be closer to the music scene.

Getting signed shouldn't be the point. I made that mistake early on and I think a lot of people do. It's not something you should rush into. I think I'm actually lucky that when I went to visit labels when I was 20 years old and played and they thought I wasn't ready, it was probably a good thing because I wasn't ready. I didn't know what I was getting intoat the time. I mean, you never know exactly what you're getting into. There's a lot of stuff that's going on right now that's new to me but there's also a lot that I'm lucky to know how to handle.

Um, eat a lot of potato chips. I have Chips Ahoy in there, everything. Everything that could possibly help me stay healthy, I'm eating.

It feels really good but it doesn't really feel a whole lot different. The biggest difference is that you walk into a store and it's there but that could've been accomplished without Columbia. I just think that it's cool to have the opportunity and I'm proud of it. I think it's the best album I've done so far.