There's downtime in music, which obviously is necessary or else you'd lose your mind in other ways, but if we're on tour and there's electricity from….

I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record f….

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but th….

I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night..

There were a few verses that I wrote literally on the spot. But the concept was there. It's about being in your own world musically and waking up in ….

I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really..

People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it..

Maybe I'm biased because I'm from there. It's close enough to New York but it's not swallowed up by New York's hustle and bustle. Philly's busy enoug….

I guess some people like to just stick with their sound, like Weezer or something, but I think I just try to keep it as close to my real life, in a N….

I'd go to a more civil party just to socialize, and I didn't know what to do with myself. So I drank a shot of tequila. And then I drank another one.….

Some people think they are such geniuses and just thought of that. They think they are so smart, like they say "All this talk about Kurt Vile and no ….

I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere..

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything..

I know most of my records are real good but I know that there are definitely things I would've changed at the end of the day. I work on things foreve….

Not that Matador is a major label, but its major enough for me. On one level we're on Matador, but our amps still might explode on stage or they'll b….

I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor..