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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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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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The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
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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 still hate the Eagles…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.
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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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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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I'm not a go-to-the-gym type guy. I've tried before. And I'm not a jogger.
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Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
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When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You develop your own thing, and get excited about your band name. It's all so harmless.
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I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
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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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I hated it so much as a child. I just didn't like it when punk bands went metal, it really bothered me. It was happening left and right in the 1980s. It started I think with D.C. bands - G.I., Soul Side, they went metal. Right at that time, R.E.M. was coming out, these more kinda feminine bands, and I was more drawn to that than to go metal. And you remember MTV, with the bad metal. But even Metallica, it just wasn't my direction.
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George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.
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You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more. It's not like we're traveling in separate buses to each show. It's a labor of love, so we just do it because we like it. Maybe someone's gonna move, or not want to go on a tour for some reason - that could happen, I guess.
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I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.
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I don't even think my voice is really good.
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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
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Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.
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The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
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