“Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.” Quote by Stephen Malkmus
“We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all these interviews and do touring? I'm a huge music fan, and this is what I do with my artistic time. It's all I really do, except hang out with my family. I value human relationships, and it's a way for me to interact with the world and feel like I'm part of something.” PeopleWorldCareValuesMy FamilyArtisticHanging OutHuman RelationsHuman Relationships Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.” PeopleMeanHomeHealthyMusic IsMy WayBother Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I'm not a go-to-the-gym type guy. I've tried before. And I'm not a jogger.” Guy Author:Stephen Malkmus
“One time I went to Berlin and, for some reason, everywhere I was going they had fishbowls. Like a fishbowl by your bed or a fish tank in the bar. They seem obsessed with this IKEA version of nature, which a fishbowl kind of is. They had that going on. I just don't really like having a goldfish by the side of my bed. I feel kind of sad for it, rather than happy. But I thought that was really weird. Maybe they have human fishbowls.” KindReasonObsessedReally Weird Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.” WritingTryingKindNovelNot Sure Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.” KindAgeRelevantHippie Author:Stephen Malkmus
“It's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, "You're a dad, and how's fatherhood?" If Bob Dylan or Neil Young had a kid, it didn't seem like it made them a different person. It didn't make you old right away.” PeopleDifferentKidsDadAsk MeFatherhoodDylanIrritating Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.” SometimesRegretPlentyI Regret Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I've been acting for years and years, at prep school - school plays, that kind of thing. That was always very high on my agenda. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.” KindReasonSchoolLiteratureActingStudyDrama Author:James Callis