You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more. It's not like we're traveling in separate buses to each show. It's a labor of love, so we… — 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
What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share
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
Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share
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
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
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
Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share
