It's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines and what they are telling us t…

- John Maus

There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynam…

- John Maus

Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

- John Maus

I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.

- John Maus

Maybe this is blasphemy to say, but I feel like music is not meant to be something that earning your keep depends on because it cheapens it and it wi…

- John Maus

It seems to me that the best work I've done - and maybe this is something other people can identify with - was because it was an end in itself. It wa…

- John Maus

Various people have put forth that love is the scene of two, that it's not about unity, it's about two absolutely disjunct positions encountering eac…

- John Maus

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

- John Maus

I think it's better to just say nothing at all than to just send two words.

- John Maus