runaway.

P: So you dropped out of school and went to Europe.

ZC: I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle. I'd been working in this old frame shop where we'd guild these picture frames. I took the money and ran off to Europe.

P: How did your parents feel about that?

ZC: Like how any good Midwestern, Catholic parents would feel about that. [But] I wasn't unambitious. That was clear. And I wasn't dumb either. Besides, even at that age I spent 90% of my time locked in my bedroom playing instruments. That was my castle. The greatest thing about my house was that I was in the far end of it and I could make as much noise as I wanted. By the time I moved out, I had a full-sized piano, two full-sized organs, bits and pieces of a drum kit, and a whole computer set up for Pro Tools. I had this mattress in between the piano and the organ. That was the only walking room.


(Zach Condon para Pitchfork)

qué seco irse a recorrer Europa con 16 años.