Alice Magazine NYC - Chapter 1

When you wake up what’s the first thing on your mind?
Where’s the coffee? Ok. Now where’s more coffee? That goes on till I can start thinking properly
and begin the everyday hustle.
When words leave your lips on stage, who are you singing them to?
I feel that just like in a ritual I sing to those who are seeking for answers. People who don’t fit but
are trying to find some sense of their own world. I don’t have these answers,
definitely. But I can pretend I do. And sometimes I pretend so hard that, at the end of the rite, we all
end up discovering some answers together. My art is not about finding the
meaning to life. Otherwise it wouldn’t be rock ’n roll. But it’s about finding a way to get through
this, to fight it, to find others with the same beliefs and make something out it, even if it’s
meaningless.
You travel often... Who is the one person you will never forget?
I don’t think there’s this one person I think about. But I think a lot about my friends. I have very few,
it’s quite a small group. But I think a lot about them. What are they doing on a friday night? Which
party are they going to? Are they having babies? Who are they dating? What important thing am I
missing? I’m always feeling guilty, feeling i’ve missed something, something really important about
them. It’s hard to be on tour. I mean, it’s fun and wild, and I get to know all this places and make
some new friends all around. But sometimes, especially when it ends, I get home so tired I can’t even
call them cause I have no strength to meet anyone. And I look back and it feels just like being a race
horse. I’m glad when they can find a way to keep me in their lifes. I sure do think of them, as a way
of keeping them attached to me somehow.
Who or what do you always fall for?
I always fall for a good sense of humor. I’m a bit drawn to the melancholic aspects of life, so it’s
always good to be surrounded by people who make me laugh and know how to laugh easily.
If you could choose any one thing in life, what would that be?
To always find great partners in life, no matter what the situation. After all, it’s all about that, I
mean, livin’. To connect and share. So, If I could choose one thing, my golden star would be: the luck
to be surrounded by the most talented and the most awesome people.
Do you follow sunlight or moonlight?
Moonlight, for sure. I’m a night person, always have been. I suffer from insomnia since my
childhood. I don’t really know if my head or body gets too excited at night, if it’s a lack of some
natural substance or if it’s just the feeling that I’d be losing so much while sleeping. I can do
anything by night: create, be quiet and alone thinking, or be partying wildly.
What can you never live without?
My cigarettes.
I have one more question...Will you marry me?
As many times as we need to. Cause a rock couple always gets divorced, but they always
get back together again.
Your style looks like sex and perfume. When you dress what are you dreaming of?
I’m dreaming of a lonely dandy seeking for love and throwing a ball while the world burns down. I
dream of James Dean. Of street hustlers in NY during the 70’s. Vamp muses from the 20’s, blackbirds
and Keith Richard’s black eyelashes.
What place in the world can you never have enough of?
There are 3 places, in fact. Buenos Aires, in Argentina, for my friends. I’ve lived there for some time
when I started studying music. Paris, for its classic beauty, for its cafes and for all those sexy skinny
boys and girls in tight pants and boots. And Los Angeles for its light.
Who do you admire and look toward for inspiration when the walls are caving in?
All the ‘wrong’ people in the right places. Real life antiheroes such as Lou Reed and Patti Smith.
Joe Dallesandro and Candy Darling. They make me remember that I should also look into myself
and search for inspiration in all the things that make me feel awkward and strange. Looking at the
things that hurt a little are the best way I know to write music.