Song Quotes by Michael Gira

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible…

— Michael Gira

It's good that people come to the shows because there's nothing fashionable about Swans. Never has been, really. We've never been part of a…

— Michael Gira

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

— Michael Gira

I wanted to challenge myself and move into something new. I felt that using the name Swans and the sonic attitude that that engenders…

— Michael Gira

When I walk around New York now, there are so many ghosts. I find it very uncomfortable. There were many hard years, and I…

— Michael Gira

I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me…

— Michael Gira

I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.

— Michael Gira

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. But I can't find myself…

— Michael Gira

“An oiled young stud does sit-ups on his Soloflex machine, eviscerates himself with an impossibly honed and gleaming kitchen knife, flings his dangling intestines…

— Michael Gira

“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and…

— Michael Gira

“I like Sade. I’m re-reading Juliette. I skip the philosophy and read the salacious bits. His descriptive imagination is incredible.”

— Michael Gira

I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.

— Michael Gira

Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a…

— Michael Gira

I don't want to sound like everybody else.

— Michael Gira

I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

— Michael Gira