Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do. — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly. — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career,… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible… — Michael Gira Copy Share
It's good that people come to the shows because there's nothing fashionable about Swans. Never has been, really. We've never been part of a… — Michael Gira Copy Share
The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot. — Michael Gira Copy Share
I wanted to challenge myself and move into something new. I felt that using the name Swans and the sonic attitude that that engenders… — Michael Gira Copy Share
When I walk around New York now, there are so many ghosts. I find it very uncomfortable. There were many hard years, and I… — Michael Gira Copy Share
I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me… — Michael Gira Copy Share
I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools. — Michael Gira Copy Share
I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. But I can't find myself… — Michael Gira Copy Share
“An oiled young stud does sit-ups on his Soloflex machine, eviscerates himself with an impossibly honed and gleaming kitchen knife, flings his dangling intestines… — Michael Gira Copy Share
“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and… — Michael Gira Copy Share
“I like Sade. I’m re-reading Juliette. I skip the philosophy and read the salacious bits. His descriptive imagination is incredible.” — Michael Gira Copy Share
I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig. — Michael Gira Copy Share
Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a… — Michael Gira Copy Share
I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough. — Michael Gira Copy Share
