I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult to discuss polit…

- Dean Wareham

One of the nice things about being in a band is that you depend on each other for ideas, so it's not all up to me to do everything myself. There's al…

- Dean Wareham

Don't be a rock star. I've seen people around me have their lives destroyed by drugs. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Like, some peop…

- Dean Wareham

I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being o…

- Dean Wareham

We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution…

- Dean Wareham

It's not often I get to do a film that turns out good. Plus, there just aren't that many great directors out there. There are a thousand different de…

- Dean Wareham

I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I w…

- Dean Wareham

It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds l…

- Dean Wareham

Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and c…

- Dean Wareham