Cass McCombs Quotes

Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

Beggars can't be choosers. We don't have all the money in the world. So anyone who wants to be in the band and be broke - that's their own death wish.

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.

That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll stab you in the back.