Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

- Dan Bejar

I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

- Dan Bejar

Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do i…

- Dan Bejar

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely becaus…

- Dan Bejar

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

- Dan Bejar

People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in co…

- Dan Bejar

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

- Dan Bejar

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm no…

- Dan Bejar

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

- Dan Bejar