Quotes for All
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 … Read more
Someone should have a record that doesn’t have any singing. It’s my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the summer, in New York, when it’s miserably hot. I love electric Miles Davis in the summer. Jack Johnson, the songwriting especially, is a premier example of that. It always makes me feel hot … Read more
So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can’t be a good thing. Craig Finn
I’ve tried to write songs for other people and it usually requires them singing it and then changing the phrasing. I can put a lot of words in a song, and one of the reasons is, I’m not that good of a singer, so I don’t hold a lot of notes. Craig Finn
I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows. Craig Finn
You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be hard for people to recapture. Hard for people to live with. Craig Finn
I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn’t have any success in music until my early to mid-30s. Craig Finn
There’s a lot of ways to be honest that don’t necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that’s something I absolutely try to do. Craig Finn
The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You’re playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own. Craig Finn
If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you’re saying, ‘Hey, here’s 10 more songs’. Craig Finn