“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. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.” I CanRememberStuffMorningPlaying Around Author:Stephen Malkmus
“The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.” WritingWellsI CanSongCan DoNiceWrittenCallingNarrativeArticlesNew YorkersWell Written Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I want to do some different kind of songs, but say I want to do riffs, but I don't come up with any riffs that I really think are great. Then I can't do a riff album. I'm more of a song, melody person.” ThinkingWantKindPersonsI CanDifferentSongCome UpAlbumsMelodyDifferent Kinds Author:Stephen Malkmus
“Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.” KnowsArtI CanHonestly Author:Stephen Malkmus
“What we're doing now, it's usually more based on records that I've bought or a projection of what I can do well now and the inner dynamics of playing with the people I'm playing with, Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme, what we come up with. What works for us doesn't, like, have that much relation to the past.” PeopleWellsI CanPastCan DoRecordsRelationCome UpProjectionDynamics Author:Stephen Malkmus
“If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.” IfsI CanCan DoInterestingListeningBusyWorriedRelevantDiscourseCdsListening To Others Author:Stephen Malkmus
