I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete mundanity, like capitalism taking over rural Ontario or whatever, has complete sway over aspects of life. Nevertheless, people… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Luckily, like for instance the song "Suicide Dream 1," I wrote it out of such an incredibly powerful state that the melody carries that affect. So when I produce that affect, that melody, with my body, I'm immediately thrown into it. — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense. — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Traveling is amazing. You meet so many great, positive people. You get to see new faces all the time. I don't think that loneliness, it's not like you have no one in your life. Well, I'd say it's like . . . you can have everyone you need in your life and still be lonely. Everyone knows that. Being on… — How to Dress Well Copy Share
I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable. — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
"Everything must change, everything must stay the same." Those are good words to have circling around in my head. I just wish that I… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
I do think that we're pretty future-obsessed right now, and I think that capitalism works best when we have a very short memory of… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century,… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back,… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
I believe, and this is something I also learned from Alice Munro, that there's a moment where the personal becomes totally universal. When you see that person in their pathetic moment, that's the moment where the completely unifying sympathy with that person is possible - where you're no longer a person here and they're someone over there, and you can… — How to Dress Well Copy Share
I don't have one thing I go back to, but we listen to a lot of music in the bus, and we always get a few songs or a few records that end up being themes for the tour. On tour I read all of George Saunders' short stories and all of Alice Munro's short stories. George Saunders is who… — How to Dress Well Copy Share
I have this problem where I get incredibly, miserably nervous every single show. This is part of why touring is so exhausting for me. I have not gotten to a place where it's like, "All right, here's another." It just doesn't feel workaday, at all, yet. It's kind of killing me, being so nervous so many hours of the day.… — How to Dress Well Copy Share
George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a really sweet… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
