Kurt Vile

I'm always working on music.

— Kurt Vile

I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.

— Kurt Vile

I like the idea of having money.

— Kurt Vile

Influence is all osmosis.

— Kurt Vile

Australia is a wild place.

— Kurt Vile

I really like Cold Cave.

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I'm just used to the L.A. music life.

— Kurt Vile

Love is intense, and sadness is intense.

— Kurt Vile

The real reason I was lo-fi before was really just because that's what I could afford.

— Kurt Vile

I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.

— Kurt Vile

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

— Kurt Vile

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

— Kurt Vile

Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny.

— Kurt Vile

I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.

— Kurt Vile

Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you.

— Kurt Vile

I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot.

— Kurt Vile

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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There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same.

— Kurt Vile

Even when I haven't played in a while, I can sit down and start with a chord, and just drop into it.…

— Kurt Vile

I walk around a lot. People come up to me and say 'Hi,' but not that often. I mean, I get it…

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If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.

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John Prine in particular... just the chord changes combined with the words. He definitely can make you cry a little bit. Just…

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A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside…

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I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once…

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There comes a time when you've toured a ton, and a time to be inspired again. Listen to awesome jazz records that…

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I'd go to a more civil party just to socialize, and I didn't know what to do with myself. So I drank…

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Anybody that's from somewhere that's made it in music outside of New York or L.A., if it's a unique enough place, they'll…

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I do a lot of things, and I'll get excited about them - maybe it'll be a song in a movie -…

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I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music…

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I go through ups and downs in the psyche all the time, and then once you start moving again, it's amazing how…

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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…

— Kurt Vile

Maybe I'm biased because I'm from there. It's close enough to New York but it's not swallowed up by New York's hustle…

— Kurt Vile

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…

— Kurt Vile

I like to laugh at dark things.

— Kurt Vile

Nobody wants a complainer.

— Kurt Vile

I had a really fun time working with the HARRYS guys and their whole crew.

— Kurt Vile

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

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I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.

— Kurt Vile

I don't have anything to get off my chest. I'm not itching to prove myself anymore.

— Kurt Vile

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

— Kurt Vile