Paul Banks Quotes
In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.
You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.
Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.
That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.
I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.
The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.
Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.
I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.