“Sometimes people come up and say, "You have this line in this song and it meant a lot to me." You don't always remember that line as the one. You're putting part of your human being on the page so people are going to have different responses - the other humans are going to connect with different parts.” PeopleHumansDifferentSometimesRememberSongLinesHuman BeingsPagesResponseCome Up Author:Craig Finn
“I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.” BookDifferentShowsReadingFansMassiveSongwritersMusic Fans Author:Craig Finn
“One thing I have a tendency to do is not write choruses, or write choruses that have different words. The first chorus will have different words than the second chorus.” WritingFirstsDifferentOne ThingTendenciesChorus Author:Craig Finn
“A conversation with you is a different thing than projecting to a couple hundred people. It's bigger and more animated and it's on a bigger scope, but still in the heart, it's honestly me.” PeopleHeartStillsDifferentCoupleConversationHundredBiggerHonestlyDifferent ThingsScopeAnimated Author:Craig Finn
“It's really easy, in a band, to overstate - you feel like everything you do is different than the past. I think this is just another Hold Steady record, but at the same time, there is some evolution. Like, "How can we make this chorus bigger?" "What do we want this to sound like?"” ThinkingDifferentPastEasyEvolutionSteadyChorus Author:Craig Finn
“When we started the band, I was really like, "We just want to make a lot of records" - not quite unlike Guided By Voices' schedule. I've always thought that our live thing is what we do best, and having a really robust, big catalog makes for the most interesting live band - especially with people, at this point, traveling to see us night after night. For us to have almost 100 songs to pull from is a really cool thing. The sets can be different. They can be invigorating on an intellectual level. I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.” PeopleDifferentNightSongInterestingIntellectualMost InterestingReally Cool Author:Craig Finn
“It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day song. You have a lot of different types of things on one record. It can be really pretty, or it can be really awful inside, depending on where your head's at at the moment. I got it in ninth grade and I think I've listened to it every month since then.” ThinkingDifferentRealMomentsBeautifulSongMorningRecordsTypeMonthsStartingPopsInnocentNoiseAwfulGradesSundayBeing RealSunnyStarting OutIntersectionsSunday MorningSunny DayReally PrettyNinth Grade Author:Craig Finn
