Kurt Vile Quotes
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I like a well-rounded life. All of this work is kind of useless if you don't have something good to come home to.
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On one level, we're on Matador, but our amps still might explode on stage, or they'll be an echo in the mic. It's like climbing a ladder. I like to climb it really slowly. I could probably get really professional right away, but I like to take baby steps and find my own way.
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I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.
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No offense to Boston, but I was glad to get out of there. I think it's just because I'm from Philly. Honestly, the blue collar side of each are pretty similar in ways, but something about the makeup of your brain, Philly versus Boston. It's a lot different, in weird ways.
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I think that I identify with Philadelphia for a lot of reasons. Without even thinking about it, I called myself 'Philly's Constant Hitmaker' when I first got a MySpace, before I had any real hits. It was kind of just a funny slogan, basically lifted from the Rolling Stones' first album, 'England's Newest Hit Makers.'
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I get to come home to my family. It's awesome, just constant adventure, never a dull moment. So much life.
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I want really badly to just be funny in a movie but be close to myself.
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I like New York. I like Philly. I like San Fran. I like when people are stoked. But Chicago's a real music town, and they're really good to us there. There's just something in the air there; people are just really stoked about music. Every time I go there, I have a great time, and the fandom is really heartwarming.
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I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.
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If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.
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I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.
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If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.
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I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.
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I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all.
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Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you.
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Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through and bands don't usually skip on tour. There are lots of music resources, but it's not too over the top.
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Even when I haven't played in a while, I can sit down and start with a chord, and just drop into it. It's like this tunnel I go into. The zone is where I want to live.
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I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot.
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I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have.
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I had a really fun time working with the HARRYS guys and their whole crew.
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'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.
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That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.
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That's one of my favorite Matador records: Cat Power, 'You Are Free.'
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I'd say the best thing the Violators and I have done is to dominate the U.S. with an arsenal of smash hits.