Craig Finn

I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they…

— Craig Finn

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

— Craig Finn

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…

— Craig Finn

You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be…

— Craig Finn

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

— Craig Finn

I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could…

— Craig Finn

Sometimes people come up and say, "You have this line in this song and it meant a lot to me." You don't…

— Craig Finn

When we started the band, I was really like, "We just want to make a lot of records" - not quite unlike…

— Craig Finn

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

I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today,…

— Craig Finn

I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

— Craig Finn

The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take…

— Craig Finn

If we enjoy what we're doing, we shouldn't really need a break.

— Craig Finn

Being on a microphone nightly has made me better at what I do, made me better able to sing a little bit,…

— Craig Finn

Some people will totally get restless, since you can make demos pretty easy. It's not unreasonable for someone to say, "All right,…

— Craig Finn

My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.

— Craig Finn

Someone should have a record that doesn't have any singing. It's my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the…

— Craig Finn

I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and…

— Craig Finn

It's good to have some kind of California in there. It's almost always appropriate. It's appropriate on a sunny day or late…

— Craig Finn

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

Heaven Is Whenever - the Christian version of reward, the ultimate reward of heaven. I guess what I'm trying to say is…

— Craig Finn

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach…

— Craig Finn

The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it.

— Craig Finn

I made a decision at some point to live a nontraditional life. I've become like, the opposite of a consumer. I just…

— Craig Finn

You can't get every girl; you get the ones you love the best.

— Craig Finn