We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.
I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.
I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.
I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.
If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.
I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!
Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.
I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights were, looking to see what bands were playing. And some of those people were the coolest people ever. I want to participate in that. And I hope other people feel that and they're like, "Yeah man, this is part of it, this is why I love music."
I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and I close my eyes and the connotations or the image I get in my head, combine with the sound of them - sometimes phonetics. I'm just stringing those together.
A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.
Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally.
I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
We always did our own mixing.
Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.
If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.
I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.
When you do a cover it's a way to get attention clicking on something. At the Quiet Music Festival, The Jicks did this Nirvana song, very unrehearsed and not important, but then all the websites were like, "They covered Nirvana!" People like covers of famous people.
One time I went to Berlin and, for some reason, everywhere I was going they had fishbowls. Like a fishbowl by your bed or a fish tank in the bar. They seem obsessed with this IKEA version of nature, which a fishbowl kind of is. They had that going on. I just don't really like having a goldfish by the side of my bed. I feel kind of sad for it, rather than happy. But I thought that was really weird. Maybe they have human fishbowls.
I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.
