I always had a background belief in God. In other words, instinctually I've never doubted that we are not alone. — David Berman Alone Copy Share Image
I imagine that I'm less famous than the 15th ranked bowler in the world. — David Berman Bowler Copy Share Image
When I started the band, the name 'Silver Jews' had no literal meaning - it was just an abstraction. — David Berman 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 Copy Share Image
I have this Martin electric/acoustic that's made of black formica. Really cool. — David Berman Copy Share Image
All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords. — David Berman 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 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 Copy Share Image
I don't know if I actually respect other artists as people as much as I should. I look at their work as… — David Berman Art Copy Share Image
I don't have any desire to be in a relationship with anyone else, and I do feel like I'm on the other… — David Berman Copy Share Image
It must be very strange to live in the world of Willie Nelson or Bruce Springsteen or Pearl Jam. I don't know… — David Berman Copy Share Image
In an email... like I did 100 interviews, and I never repeated one story. That's impossible to do when you do face-to-face… — David Berman Copy Share Image
It frustrated me at college that all the acts in the Top 10 were like The Moody Blues and Phil Collins. It… — David Berman Blues Copy Share Image
That's the way I've always been, between the albums: For two- or three-year gaps I wouldn't pick up a guitar. And when… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I've never been from a certain group. I've always reserved a space for myself where I'm unattached to any group, but the… — David Berman Community Copy Share Image
My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and… — David Berman 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
Nashville only thrives when talented people from out of town move here from somewhere else. — David Berman Country Copy Share Image
I read Henry Miller's 'Nexus,' 'Sexus' and 'Plexus' the summer after I graduated from college. It cemented my decision to spurn any… — David Berman Books Copy Share Image
Some nights I'm funny with the between-song commentary, some nights I'm not. I have no control over this. I pace the stage… — David Berman Control Copy Share Image
I've had to stop going to the nearest grocery store that seems to play Shania Twain's 'Forever and For Always' whenever I'm… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds.… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing… — David Berman Art Copy Share Image
We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our… — David Berman Addiction Copy Share Image
Spend regularly and constantly two or three hours of the morning in study and retirement. I do not take upon me to… — David Berman Education Copy Share Image
In the beginning, it was meant to be like a faceless art piece. Then I did the first record and it received… — David Berman Art Copy Share Image
The overlap between Pavement's fan base and people who liked Silver Jews was total. In my mind, even a local band with… — David Berman 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
Sometimes I turn the TV just below where you can hear it and write down what I think they might be saying… — David Berman 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
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 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
I still believe in putting something out and not asking people to buy the record, then buy a ticket to my show… — David Berman 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
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
Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite… — David Berman Care Copy Share Image
“Nude descending a staircase headless, not knowing where she is going but brave because all dreams lack conclusions and she is not… — David Berman Dreams Copy Share Image
I mean, I wasn't fortunate enough to have ever experienced starting out with a band and sticking with them, so that would… — David Berman Copy Share Image
A lot of the Jews I met in Israel, almost all of them are secular. They get turned off by their religion,… — David Berman Christianity Copy Share Image
Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
