I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang.

- Travis Morrison

I like being a musician that's also a fly on the wall. I like people coming in the room and doing what they do and then leaving. I like attention, bu…

- Travis Morrison

There was no indie rock band in the 90s at the level of, like, Grizzly Bear. I listen to their records and it's crazy how good they sound. That reall…

- Travis Morrison

There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. …

- Travis Morrison

Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don…

- Travis Morrison

There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 t…

- Travis Morrison

I like to go play shows just to see people, so I'm not in the game of like, "You're at my show, you're gonna listen to it like this, blah blah blah."

- Travis Morrison

I'm a grown-ass man. I can't be, like, ordering people to put down their phones.

- Travis Morrison

I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants. I'm kind of in a dream state.

- Travis Morrison