Between me and my wife, there's this joke where I'll be doing some fun interview, and I'll get off the phone and be like, "That guy was an idiot." A lot of times, interviews are like being asked a list… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated. — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Every declarative statement that comes out of an interview with somebody is actually in response to a question. It's like this very real interpersonal… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
There have been times I wanted to cry on interview, but it hasn't been because that's what they're trying to conjure. No. I think… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers. — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
I think the biggest wrestling match-up I have is how to respond to the word "quirky." Or the alternate, "nerdy." Both are essentially benign… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The simplest app on your smartphone requires 40 peoples' purest imagination. The challenges with people on environment, we just have to open some of… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to wonder if there isn't an ejector seat built into having a popular-music career. We were lucky when we started. We were already old when we started - you could have described our first album as "aging Brooklyn guys." We were in our late 20s. We weren't octogenarians, but a lot of bands were already younger than… — John Flansburgh Copy Share
Sometimes people will ask a real "Why are you beating your wife?" question where there's some assumption built into it, and all you're trying… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Bill O'Reilly knew he could just filibuster and enjoy all the airtime that a full interview would give him, and then also grab the… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
I don't think bands should feel compelled to speak out unless they actually have something to say. I think that's a big mistake, where you're turning into a coyote running off the edge of a cliff. Too often, people just feel like something is happening and they want to be part of this thing, and it's just, there's sort of… — John Flansburgh Copy Share
