I kept saying I got sick of listening to people's productions, like people who had no ideas, no songs, nothing to say… — Jason Pierce Application Copy Share Image
Making a record's a real fight for me. I'm constantly fighting with this thing inside of me that says I should be… — Jason Pierce Fighting Copy Share Image
In an odd way I thought I was lowering the bar for myself, in saying, well, I'll make a pop album. But… — Jason Pierce Abstract Copy Share Image
Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing… — Jason Pierce Authenticity Copy Share Image
When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by… — Jason Pierce Music Copy Share Image
You know, I'm unable to make those records where you just go in a studio and that's it. I think you can… — Jason Pierce One day Copy Share Image
It's a weird situation, doing interviews. Nowhere else in the world can you talk about yourself and have people listen like they're… — Jason Pierce About yourself Copy Share Image
I've said the line about Ray Charles a million times, but nobody listens to him singing "I Can't Stop Loving You" and… — Jason Pierce Loving you Copy Share Image
I don't make records for this medium with which we're going to sell it. The selling of it can never be more… — Jason Pierce Bullshit Copy Share Image
I just think there's an awful part of rock-'n-roll music where people kind of pretend they're young all their lives, you know?… — Jason Pierce Glory Copy Share Image
I want my records to be the most magnificent and glorious-sounding records, but also want them to be the most intense and… — Jason Pierce Intense Copy Share Image
There's always this talk of the industry of music and about selling records and whatever, but that ignores probably the majority of… — Jason Pierce Church Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's easier to make decisions when you know that you've tried things that are so wrong, you know, "OK, I don't… — Jason Pierce Decision Copy Share Image
I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what… — Jason Pierce Epic Copy Share Image
My songs get to a stage where they resist any further change, you know? And that's kind of where they are, short… — Jason Pierce Kind Copy Share Image
I used to listen to so much doo-wop, and I've talked a lot about gospel music, but I realised a lot of… — Jason Pierce Angel Copy Share Image
I don't know if embarrassed is the right word, about pop, but I prefer the abstract and the distorted in music. And… — Jason Pierce Abstract Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with the science of music. I'm obsessed with the way you can string notes together and they can do something,… — Jason Pierce Music Copy Share Image
