Kurt Vile

The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even 'Childish Prodigy,' I had a day job that whole time. Those…

— Kurt Vile

I think if you just travel in general, it allows you to step outside of yourself and whatever you're familiar with.

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We'll play somewhere like London, playing to 2,000 people easy, and every time you play with more people, you think, 'You're a…

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I got depressed so many times by my blue-collar life and self-conscious about the fact that I didn't go to college. I…

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When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at…

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A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

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When I was a teenager, I was mostly getting tapes and CDs, and somebody hipped me to the fact that you can…

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'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.

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I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked and I'm so high when I'm hearing it…

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There's downtime in music, which obviously is necessary or else you'd lose your mind in other ways, but if we're on tour…

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Some people think they are such geniuses and just thought of that. They think they are so smart, like they say "All…

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I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it…

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I want really badly to just be funny in a movie but be close to myself.

— Kurt Vile

Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you.

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I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

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Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives.

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There's so many FM hits that I love. Bob Seger, there's two of his songs that I love. I would probably love…

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I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things.

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If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.

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I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

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I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze.

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I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on.

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I proved myself with 'Smoke Ring.' It was me maturing. I made a good pop record.

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My dad's really funny. The male sense of humor - like my grandfather's and such - is pretty bizarre. Basically my dad's…

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I'm always working on music.

— Kurt Vile