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

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

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

- Paul Banks

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

- 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…

- 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…

- Paul Banks

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

- 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…

- Paul Banks