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BLACK FRANCISI like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it’s kind of like that’s never really been my bag. Probably because I’m too shy.
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If you’re a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.
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If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.
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We sing some song that we made up but I don’t want to make a record like that.
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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.
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That’s more important even then what their background is or what they’ve done before, how good they are, how new they are or whatever. All that stuff is really secondary to just getting along with the person.
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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
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Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they’re in.
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I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.
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For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.
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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?”
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I don’t like to have everything all worked out in my head because there’s always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.
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As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn’t have a day job.
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I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It’s hard to say whether or not you’re a believer.
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The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.
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I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it’s kind of like that’s never really been my bag. Probably because I’m too shy.
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I don’t want to be flaky. I don’t want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend’s driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
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When you look at something that’s really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.
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I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn’t a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn’t deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.
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Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
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You think you’ve made something really great, but there’s a reason why it’s not resonating the way some previous work did. But it’s not that easy to just replicate.
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I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That’s three college funds.
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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.
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Everyone thinks I’m a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I’ll just flip ’em the bird!
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Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
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It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.
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