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 can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career. — 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
