When people tend to be happier they have more interest in the world around them. — David Berman Around Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be an artist in another time. I need to exist in a time where high… — David Berman Another time Copy Share Image
All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords. — David Berman Chords Copy Share Image
There are enough really good love songs and I don't even know if I could write one if I tried. — David Berman Could Copy Share Image
I have this Martin electric/acoustic that's made of black formica. Really cool. — David Berman Acoustic Copy Share Image
Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one. — David Berman American Copy Share Image
I can't imagine putting my name on a t-shirt. For someone to wear my name? Me? It's ridiculous. — David Berman Imagine Copy Share Image
Nashville only thrives when talented people from out of town move here from somewhere else. — David Berman Country Copy Share Image
I try every day and every night to find a movie or a TV show that I can watch, but I just… — David Berman Day Copy Share Image
Sometimes I turn the TV just below where you can hear it and write down what I think they might be saying… — David Berman I think Copy Share Image
Little Wooster, Ohio and gargantuan Dallas, Texas formed the municipal cocktail of my life up till age 18. That drab, weird little… — David Berman Age Copy Share Image
For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear… — David Berman Again Copy Share Image
I am not only neither Christian nor Jewish, but said to be in between, and I feel the same way about being… — David Berman Being Copy Share Image
I still believe in putting something out and not asking people to buy the record, then buy a ticket to my show… — David Berman Believe Copy Share Image
In the beginning, because of the Pavement thing, we were able to sell a certain amount of records. We were able to… — David Berman Beginning Copy Share Image
Intellectuals and creative people, once they start talking about God they get put into this other category: 'I don't go to people's… — David Berman Creative people Copy Share Image
When I was seven my parents divorced. My father went to Dallas. My mom fled to the shelter of my grandparents in… — David Berman Father Copy Share Image
The rules changed for art around 1989. We were all loosed upon the canon to clip and paste and borrow and update.… — David Berman Art Copy Share Image
Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from… — David Berman Berkeley Copy Share Image
“I believe the stars are the headlights of angels driving from heaven to save us to save us...Won't you look at the… — David Berman Astronomy Copy Share Image
It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis… — David Berman Adults Copy Share Image
I don't think any songwriter who comes up through playing clubs can really claim to have independently developed their art. All along… — David Berman Art Copy Share Image
When you can't see you become very timid about space and moving. You become less aggressive and less tenacious. Lots of things… — David Berman Aggressive Copy Share Image
My faith was undermined by the same sort of things that make people skeptics of religion in general. Part of it was,… — David Berman Faith Copy Share Image
Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.' — David Berman About Copy Share Image
For a long time, I've struggled very, very much with what people call treatment-resistant depression. — David Berman Depression Copy Share Image
My great grandfather was the last practicing Jew in my family. He died in 1982. — David Berman Family Copy Share Image
People younger than me trust me. People my age do not. They think I'm up to something. And I've often felt this. — David Berman Age Copy Share Image
I grew up the son of a businessman. And I didn't get into music to be a businessman. — David Berman Businessman Copy Share Image
I was 29 or 30 when I felt sure of what I was doing, but not fully identifying as a songwriter until I was 37. — David Berman Doing Copy Share Image
I guess on all Silver Jews records, it's extremely male-centric. — David Berman Extremely Copy Share Image
Some people like my singing. But it sounds like bad singing to a lot of other people. — David Berman Bad Copy Share Image
I have always had a blank spot where my regret is supposed to be. — David Berman Always Copy Share Image
If I believed in fate I'd be very curious why I picked the name Silver Jews. — David Berman Curious Copy Share Image
