With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius,… — 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
The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing… — 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
But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I want to do some different kind of songs, but say I want to do riffs, but I don't come up with… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
When you do a cover it's a way to get attention clicking on something. At the Quiet Music Festival, The Jicks did… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I just don't think people listen. I mean, they can't listen to a whole album closely without checking their iPhone or wanting… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good… — 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
Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without… — 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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