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One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, “I just got done telling you no, there’s nothing to report.”

Black Francis

If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
BLACK FRANCIS

Band Filters Strong
My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn’t how people are going to receive them, because they don’t know the code.
BLACK FRANCIS

might People Song
Some people think, “Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before.” But it just doesn’t work like that. It’s a lot more mysterious or slippery.
BLACK FRANCIS

Before Happy Mysterious People Some
I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.
BLACK FRANCIS

Expression Painting Thinking
It’s sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That’s the level where I want to go.
BLACK FRANCIS

Couplet Level Levels Mean People
I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I’ll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y’know, just see where roads lead.
BLACK FRANCIS

Cities Country Pleasure Trying
I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
BLACK FRANCIS

College Kids Two
I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
BLACK FRANCIS

Everybody Painter Thinking
Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won’t bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.
BLACK FRANCIS

Age Heart Musician Records Young
I’m really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there’s sound and visuals.
BLACK FRANCIS

Art Feelings Thinking
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
BLACK FRANCIS

Parent Reality Voice
It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
BLACK FRANCIS

Obvious Stealing
I think if everyone agrees that that’s the goal then it doesn’t matter who’s the band and it doesn’t matter who’s the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.
BLACK FRANCIS

Everyone Matter People Situation
When we’ve got something to say to the world, we will. I’m really happy that people are interested. “So, what’s up with the Pixies record? So, what’s up with the Pixies record?”
BLACK FRANCIS

Done Guy People Something Will
Who do sing SONGS. It’s like I never sang before; like I was – I don’t know – reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing
BLACK FRANCIS

Exclusive Previous Prose Reading Sing
They’re pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.
BLACK FRANCIS

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One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, “I just got done telling you no, there’s nothing to report.”

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