With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
In the early '90s, it felt like there was space - there was like an empty feel. There was nobody really doing… — 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
My wife says that I changed people's lives or ways of thinking and that I should always be proud and grateful. If… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to… — 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
'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
![“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 kinds of music. I don't listen to any of those Internet radio things. I have iTunes on my thing, but I've never bought a single thing on it. Except for…” quote by Stephen Malkmus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/841/stephen-malkmus-2984_call-me_traditionally-when-we-lived-here-in-port_100182.jpg)
