Devendra Banhart's nostalgia for a Venezuelan grocery store

Going with my mom to the health food store, that was the only place I felt that human beings had a nicer energy than your day-to-day people. And in Caracas, the health food store, basically it has a little bit of a soy sauce, the word “macrobiotic” is around, it’s tiny, it’s in a little mall. This is in the 80s and they have cookies with sesame on them and just no sugar or milk. It’s just disgusting. I mean inedible food, but there was this comfort there, it just felt like people were gentler and there was a more sensitive feeling going on and people were more in touch with their bodies because they’re eating a diet that’s not totally full of you know, chemicals and preservatives. But, something about the health food store is deep, deep, deep, comforting. Deep, deep, um, nostalgia. Deep, deep safe space feeling. You know, mother’s love. Just those early 80s health food stores, whoa. They were all called, you know, “The Unicorn” or “The Wizard.” That’s where I try to return to in my favorite music. What is that mom’s health food store feeling of my childhood? This is like deep nostalgia. And then I’ve been thinking a lot about the word nostalgia, you know, it means homesickness in Greek. You know this longing, this sadness for home. You will never get back to that place. So we just try to find it anywhere else.