Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more.… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Every song has a different genesis, or feeling. Usually the lyrics, I don't really know what it's all about, I just kinda… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
'Silence Kid' starts with a broken classic-rock intro. It's funny to hear us do that. Obviously, we weren't skillful rock stars. Then it's spinning… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I am good at just looking in the kitchen and getting stuff on the table and keeping the mess minimal. There's an art to… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Traditionally, when we lived here [in Portland], we have a record player in the living room, and there's lots of stuff playing, all different… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and I close… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
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