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Bobby Braddock is great.
My father is a despicable man.
I used to consider myself weak.
I always loved bands with mystique.
I hear luxury brand names, I cringe.
Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie.
It takes a society to raise a generation.
You don't meet too many actors in Nashville.
Pragmatism and romance are sort of opposites.
Natalie Maines has a voice for the centuries.
Somewhere in the future I am remembering today.
I am about to learn what it's like to live here.
I've never done much to try to build an audience.
The world of commerce is a kind of a purgatory itself.
Mostly i write on an unplugged Mustang or a Baby Taylor.
Definitely in everything I do, the comic is a part of it.
The greatest thing about Nashville is that it's welcoming.
I have bad vision, but it's not distorted. It's low power!
Ever since I was a little kid, I've always felt un-trusted.
I'm interested in direct communication about domestic life.
Lyrically, country music is the most satisfying music for me.
I don't have room in my mind to think about musical equipment.
I was not born to be the center of attention in a crowded room.
I guess on all Silver Jews records, it's extremely male-centric.
Silver Jews was always a coolection of old friends. Uncoolection.
I have always had a blank spot where my regret is supposed to be.
I imagine that I'm less famous than the 15th ranked bowler in the world.
All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.
If I believed in fate I'd be very curious why I picked the name Silver Jews.
When art is about craftsmanship, then guys like me don't make it as artists.
My great grandfather was the last practicing Jew in my family. He died in 1982.
When people tend to be happier they have more interest in the world around them.
In 2004, I don't think any Silver Jews fan was probably expecting another record.
Fan reaction is so out-sized and hyperbolic in rock music compared to other arts.
Nashville only thrives when talented people from out of town move here from somewhere else.
In my whole life, I've had maybe 10 people who have told me how much my music means to them.
There are enough really good love songs and I don't even know if I could write one if I tried.
I can't imagine putting my name on a t-shirt. For someone to wear my name? Me? It's ridiculous.
I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians.
You can't change the feeling but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two
Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one.
When I started the band, the name 'Silver Jews' had no literal meaning - it was just an abstraction.
All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.
For a long time, I've struggled very, very much with what people call treatment-resistant depression.
Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'
I was 29 or 30 when I felt sure of what I was doing, but not fully identifying as a songwriter until I was 37.
People younger than me trust me. People my age do not. They think I'm up to something. And I've often felt this.
I always had a background belief in God. In other words, instinctually I've never doubted that we are not alone.
When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming
In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be an artist in another time. I need to exist in a time where high and low art mix easily.