Stephen Malkmus

Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from…

— Stephen Malkmus

With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius,…

— Stephen Malkmus

I hate being tan.

— Stephen Malkmus

I've always been attracted to negative influences - I thought that meant you were smart.

— Stephen Malkmus

In this achievement-based lifestyle, most of us have certain boxes we're checking to make us useful humans. But a lot of things…

— Stephen Malkmus

I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.

— Stephen Malkmus

I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.

— Stephen Malkmus

I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.

— Stephen Malkmus

With Pavement, we had no managers and never had a lawyer. We got lucky with not signing any bad deals.

— Stephen Malkmus

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

— Stephen Malkmus

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America…

— Stephen Malkmus

I don't even think my voice is really good.

— Stephen Malkmus

With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock…

— Stephen Malkmus

John Waters is a genius.

— Stephen Malkmus

I've tried to rap, and I cannot do it.

— Stephen Malkmus

It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do.…

— Stephen Malkmus

When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You…

— Stephen Malkmus

The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something,…

— Stephen Malkmus

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song…

— Stephen Malkmus

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

— Stephen Malkmus

I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the…

— Stephen Malkmus

Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.

— Stephen Malkmus

I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up…

— Stephen Malkmus

When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a…

— Stephen Malkmus

Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can…

— Stephen Malkmus