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.

- Stephen Malkmus

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.

- Stephen Malkmus

[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…

- Stephen Malkmus

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…

- Stephen Malkmus

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.

- Stephen Malkmus

Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.

- Stephen Malkmus

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…

- Stephen Malkmus

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…

- Stephen Malkmus

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

- Stephen Malkmus