I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.
I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?
What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.
There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.
I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.
I'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.
[As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.
Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
I really do think everybody can sing.
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.
There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.
I don't even think my voice is really good.
Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.
Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.
There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.
