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" As a kid, I was just a kid. Average. "
Bill Callahan
Just
Kid
Average
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" Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that. "
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" I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy. "
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" I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming. "
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" To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it. "
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" My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school. "
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" I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And I can't really speak for my subconscious. "
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" I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.' "
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" My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes. "
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First
Going
" I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone. "
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" From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live. "
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" I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because, if everything feels okay, I'm ready to put it to music. "
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Mouth
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" When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet. "
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Niche
Write
" I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off - you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me. "
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Doing
Me
Skin
" I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years. "
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House
Place
Things
" There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it - it's a real peaceful thing to me. "
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" I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was. "
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Know
Late
Understand
" I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol. "
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Writer
Symbol
Somewhere
" Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time. "
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Time
Words
Thank You
" Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think. "
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Like
" At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours' walk, come back in, and record. And then the sun came up. If I had done something good, then I'd be happy and go to sleep. "
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Sun
" I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating by. It's something that I didn't start thinking about until recently, but you can hitch that ride, that narrative that's already been created. You just have to read it and write it down. "
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" Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day. "
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Google
Name
" I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I've always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that's not necessarily spiritual. "
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Mountains
" You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice. "
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Always
You