Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing about gospel music is, these people are singing about their faith. So it always comes across with, as… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
I used to listen to so much doo-wop, and I've talked a lot about gospel music, but I realised a lot of that language came from doo-wop music. You know, "I Asked the Lord Above," "Heaven Sent Me an Angel."… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
I kept saying I got sick of listening to people's productions, like people who had no ideas, no songs, nothing to say but could… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
Making a record's a real fight for me. I'm constantly fighting with this thing inside of me that says I should be sitting in… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
In an odd way I thought I was lowering the bar for myself, in saying, well, I'll make a pop album. But in a way it's kind of harder to make pop music. It's like the more abstract you get with music, you get into that emperor's new clothes thing, where you can go anywhere, and just claim that your… — Jason Pierce Copy Share
Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing about gospel… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident. — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
You know, I'm unable to make those records where you just go in a studio and that's it. I think you can capture so… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
It's a weird situation, doing interviews. Nowhere else in the world can you talk about yourself and have people listen like they're interested over… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
I've said the line about Ray Charles a million times, but nobody listens to him singing "I Can't Stop Loving You" and wonders who… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
I don't make records for this medium with which we're going to sell it. The selling of it can never be more important than… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
I just think there's an awful part of rock-'n-roll music where people kind of pretend they're young all their lives, you know? And they… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
I want my records to be the most magnificent and glorious-sounding records, but also want them to be the most intense and fragile. And… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
There's always this talk of the industry of music and about selling records and whatever, but that ignores probably the majority of music that… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
