I have this Martin electric/acoustic that's made of black formica. Really cool. — David Berman Copy Share Image
Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one. — David Berman Copy Share Image
All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords. — David Berman Copy Share Image
There are enough really good love songs and I don't even know if I could write one if I tried. — David Berman Copy Share Image
I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians. — David Berman Copy Share Image
I don't have time for language poetry anymore. I don't want to throw people off anymore. — David Berman Language Copy Share Image
“I passed out on the fourteenth floor. The CPR was so erotic.” — David Berman Erotic Copy Share Image
All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was. — David Berman Album Copy Share Image
I ask myself when I see a new album: 'Is this an album that they needed to make, or do they need… — David Berman Album Copy Share Image
I don't have religion or culture. I don't have anything I can believe in when I'm really scared. When I play the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
My only advice would be to someone right now, is if you're in a position in your life where you need to… — David Berman Advice Copy Share Image
...and my signature is drawn in magic markeron the lower right hand corner of the windowso when something passes in the darkit's… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I bought a guitar when I was twenty. But I didn't write a song until I was 25 or 26. I never… — David Berman Copy Share Image
There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will… — David Berman Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in… — David Berman Alive Copy Share Image
If they told me I couldn't leave the radius of six miles from my house, I really wouldn't care. There's nowhere I… — David Berman Care Copy Share Image
I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the… — David Berman Business Copy Share Image
Lyrically, country music is the most satisfying music for me. — David Berman Country Copy Share Image
I've never been a big movie person, but I used to watch movies regularly in my life, and sometime in the '90s… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I mean, I wasn't fortunate enough to have ever experienced starting out with a band and sticking with them, so that would… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite… — David Berman Care Copy Share Image
“Nude descending a staircase headless, not knowing where she is going but brave because all dreams lack conclusions and she is not… — David Berman Dreams Copy Share Image
The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies.… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
A lot of the Jews I met in Israel, almost all of them are secular. They get turned off by their religion,… — David Berman Christianity Copy Share Image
I take pride in the fact that I can walk away from things. My willingness to walk away has protected me, I… — David Berman Dreams Copy Share Image
It's a Gen X thing to be okay with going unnoticed or unrated or untouched. To be free from strangers' expectations, or… — David Berman Anger Copy Share Image
I heard Springsteen was an unhappy person. I don't know, I haven't read his biography. But a lot of people in my… — David Berman Copy Share Image
In the beginning, because of the Pavement thing, we were able to sell a certain amount of records. We were able to… — David Berman Beginning Copy Share Image
I am not only neither Christian nor Jewish, but said to be in between, and I feel the same way about being… — David Berman Being Copy Share Image
I still believe in putting something out and not asking people to buy the record, then buy a ticket to my show… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Intellectuals and creative people, once they start talking about God they get put into this other category: 'I don't go to people's… — David Berman Creative people Copy Share Image
Little Wooster, Ohio and gargantuan Dallas, Texas formed the municipal cocktail of my life up till age 18. That drab, weird little… — David Berman Age Copy Share Image
Sometimes I turn the TV just below where you can hear it and write down what I think they might be saying… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I try every day and every night to find a movie or a TV show that I can watch, but I just… — David Berman Day Copy Share Image
For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear… — David Berman Copy Share Image
We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our… — David Berman Addiction Copy Share Image
I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing… — David Berman Art Copy Share Image
Some nights I'm funny with the between-song commentary, some nights I'm not. I have no control over this. I pace the stage… — David Berman Control Copy Share Image
I've had to stop going to the nearest grocery store that seems to play Shania Twain's 'Forever and For Always' whenever I'm… — David Berman Copy Share Image
