I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level. — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version. — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case. — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
“You were like a cloud, you were just like a flower, then you were a lime, now our love is sour.” — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you do what you do, and in a way, you don't even control the core essence of what you do.… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done. — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to me aren't… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
