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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was really shy as a kid.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that I'm often pushing my voice as hard as I can is from playing in nightclubs in Albuquerque where you don't have a good sound system.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.
- Cheating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I've always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field on this mega stage. It was a little distracting. It was hard to keep track of what I was supposed to sing.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary.
- Nov 07, 2020
Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a lot of modern soundtracks. Another soundtrack I love is from a French movie called 'Betty Blue.' it has some really melancholy piano work.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020