Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing about gospel music is, th…

- Jason Pierce

Sometimes it's easier to make decisions when you know that you've tried things that are so wrong, you know, "OK, I don't go that way with it. I don't…

- Jason Pierce

My songs get to a stage where they resist any further change, you know? And that's kind of where they are, short of re-recording or starting again. T…

- Jason Pierce

I used to listen to so much doo-wop, and I've talked a lot about gospel music, but I realised a lot of that language came from doo-wop music. You kno…

- Jason Pierce

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.

- Jason Pierce

It's a weird situation, doing interviews. Nowhere else in the world can you talk about yourself and have people listen like they're interested over a…

- Jason Pierce

I just think there's an awful part of rock-'n-roll music where people kind of pretend they're young all their lives, you know? And they kind of live …

- Jason Pierce

You know, I'm unable to make those records where you just go in a studio and that's it. I think you can capture so much more on a record than just a …

- Jason Pierce

There's always this talk of the industry of music and about selling records and whatever, but that ignores probably the majority of music that isn't …

- Jason Pierce