My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that. — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way. — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect. — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together. — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I'm not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I think, Trump ran a very nostalgic campaign. There's an idea of like, to put it bluntly: What if it was like… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
It's really easy, in a band, to overstate - you feel like everything you do is different than the past. I think… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
Ray Cappo never tried to convert me into a Krishna, although one of his cohorts probably did. I think it was just… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London, so I think we've tapped into some of… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
Some people I've talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing - and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book. — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be hard for… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that. — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
Sometimes people come up and say, "You have this line in this song and it meant a lot to me." You don't always remember… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
When we started the band, I was really like, "We just want to make a lot of records" - not quite unlike Guided By… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I think, Trump ran a very nostalgic campaign. There's an idea of like, to put it bluntly: What if it was like before all… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way. — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
