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I hate being tan.
John Waters is a genius.
We always did our own mixing.
I'm a fan of the Grateful Dead.
I'm a junior - like Dinosaur Jr.
I'm not dying for things to say.
I like visual imagery in my head.
I really do think everybody can sing.
I don't even think my voice is really good.
I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.
I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.
I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.
I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.
I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.
I'm not a go-to-the-gym type guy. I've tried before. And I'm not a jogger.
A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.
Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.
When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.
I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally.
I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
I've always been attracted to negative influences - I thought that meant you were smart.
There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
I know why Migos are popular - they're good, and they make great videos, and they're funny.
I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.
I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
'Summer Babe' is the start of Pavement front-loading their albums with the catchiest song first.
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.
Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
With Pavement, we had no managers and never had a lawyer. We got lucky with not signing any bad deals.
That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.
Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.
Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.