Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's [Kessler] insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."
Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative - Paul Banks
Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative
- Paul Banks
If you're an artist, you do what you do, and in a way, you don't even control the core essence of what you do. You try to mold it and develop a style… - Paul Banks
If you're an artist, you do what you do, and in a way, you don't even control the core essence of what you do. You try to mold it and develop a style…
You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no… - Paul Banks
You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no…
Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him. - Paul Banks
Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.
In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done. - Paul Banks
In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.
I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to me aren't very straightforward. T… - Paul Banks
I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to me aren't very straightforward. T…
It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as ver… - Paul Banks
It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as ver…
The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case. - Paul Banks
The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.
...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early o… - Paul Banks
...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early o…
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