Music Quotes

There are so many self-references - it's always me in the songs talking about being in the song, like a character in a film that knows he's a character in a film.

The Seed Sounds Weekender is a vital reminder that music doesn't start in boardrooms or big arenas; it starts in back rooms, pubs, basements, and independent spaces run on love, grit, and belief in something bigger.

The erosion of funding for seed and grassroots spaces is part of a wider liberal tendency to strip away the socially democratic infrastructure that actually makes art possible.

The goal is something that sounds like a cover.

I want my records to represent who I am, and I'm so fucking many things. And I also never wanna do anything that feels humble, because that would be performative.

Anyone can make something with technology, but we've been a band for 20 years-it isn't algorithmic.

George is one of the best drummers in the world, play the fucking drums! Hann fucking rips on the guitar, so rip on the guitar!

Songs like 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons, it might as well be called 'Pikachu Banana.' It's nothingness.

I thought we were fighting, but it seems I was 'gaslighting' you. I didn't know that it had its own word.

People may think that it's 'uncool' to work with the biggest producer in the world-I don't give a fuck.

I fucking hate Metallica. My worst band of all time.

I've thought about every single word on this album for two years; I'd think about a tweet for 20 seconds. My album's gonna go out to, what, 10 million people, but a tweet could go out to a billion. The maths doesn't work out. I'll die on the hill of my records, but I won't die on the hill of my tweets. It's better to say good things less than to say average things more.

Every record I've made, I convinced myself that I had so much to prove, so it had to be about everything that ever happened, everything that's happening now, and everything that could ever happen.

But on this record, I said, 'Instead of a magnum opus, what about more like a polaroid?

Sorry I did not link my song in that tweet to make it about me it's just that the song is literally about this disgusting situation and speaks more eloquently than I can on Twitter.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

I don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.

I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.

There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine.