Occupation: Musician Birth: May 30, 1966
I never decided to start singing, to be a singer..
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….
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 th….
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 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..
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff..
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 perce….
[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….
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….
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 wo….
Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people..
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..
We always did our own mixing..
I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something..
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny..
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..
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 fron….
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 like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though..
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 ….
We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!.