Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it's true that, what, two out of six people in this city are starving? That's true, but that is only true because the conditions… — How to Dress Well Copy Share
In Dardenne brothers' films is a really small kind of humanity. It's not like the titanic "humanity" of humanism, it's much more gritty and realistic. But again, humanity is what unites all the people I'm talking about, and in such… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense. — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Traveling is amazing. You meet so many great, positive people. You get to see new faces all the time. I don't think that loneliness, it's not like you have no one in your life. Well, I'd say it's like . . . you can have everyone you need in your life and still be lonely. Everyone knows that. Being on… — How to Dress Well Copy Share
I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable. — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
"Everything must change, everything must stay the same." Those are good words to have circling around in my head. I just wish that I… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
I do think that we're pretty future-obsessed right now, and I think that capitalism works best when we have a very short memory of… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century,… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back,… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
I believe, and this is something I also learned from Alice Munro, that there's a moment where the personal becomes totally universal. When you see that person in their pathetic moment, that's the moment where the completely unifying sympathy with that person is possible - where you're no longer a person here and they're someone over there, and you can… — How to Dress Well Copy Share
I don't have one thing I go back to, but we listen to a lot of music in the bus, and we always get a few songs or a few records that end up being themes for the tour. On tour I read all of George Saunders' short stories and all of Alice Munro's short stories. George Saunders is who… — How to Dress Well Copy Share
I have this problem where I get incredibly, miserably nervous every single show. This is part of why touring is so exhausting for me. I have not gotten to a place where it's like, "All right, here's another." It just doesn't feel workaday, at all, yet. It's kind of killing me, being so nervous so many hours of the day.… — How to Dress Well Copy Share
George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a really sweet… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
