So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
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
Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen. — 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
Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too. — 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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