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Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.
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But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.
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What I love about music, when you can look at something and be like, "Wow, what's this all about?" You can't really picture what these people look like - is it one guy, or a band making music in a garage?
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I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.
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Usually the lyrics go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.
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It's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, "You're a dad, and how's fatherhood?" If Bob Dylan or Neil Young had a kid, it didn't seem like it made them a different person. It didn't make you old right away.
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Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.
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It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.
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It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.
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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
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I think it's just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.
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Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.
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It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.
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With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but I'm writing from a music standpoint. I'm thinking more of music heroes, if they're in my mind. Not William Blake or John Ashbury. Sometimes maybe I thought of him a little bit. Or Wallace Stevens. I don't even really fully understand either of them.
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The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
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I still hate the Eagles…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.
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I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.
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I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.
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I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.
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I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
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That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.
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I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.
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If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.
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