When you have a lot of time, when you're not working a full-time job, you have a lot of time to question things and think about things. Some of it's …

- Gary Louris

When you're not working with the same people, you tend to sound different. Even if my personality is the same, it's reflected off different people.

- Gary Louris

The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my mouth while I'm writing the chords, and …

- Gary Louris

I think my music is a reflection of what I think life is. Which is beautiful and sad, you know. I'm a bit of a sad-sack, in a way. I try not to be a …

- Gary Louris

I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed to for mys…

- Gary Louris

As I say to people, never say never.

- Gary Louris

I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.

- Gary Louris

If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot of ideas, let's put it that way - I have too …

- Gary Louris

I just think I just noticed that when I was working on other people's music I found myself missing a bit of the total control I had doing my own.

- Gary Louris