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" I like the idea of having money. "
Kurt Vile
Having
Money
Idea
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" I've got an amazing family. My wife is really smart. She's guided me the whole way. With children, you see them grow up, so it's like you're forever young. They are totally innocent and so unjaded. Watching them grow up makes you go through it again yourself. "
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Wife
Yourself
Children
" When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there. "
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Friends
She
School
" I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst. "
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Driving
Worst
Wacky
" Love is intense, and sadness is intense. "
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Love
Sadness
Intense
" I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved. "
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Music
You
Start
" I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing. "
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Kind
Person
Will
" I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head. "
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Get
Idea
Head
" I benefit from a change of scenery; it's always inspiring. "
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Scenery
Change
Benefit
" I'm just used to the L.A. music life. "
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Used
Music
Life
" There comes a time when you've toured a ton, and a time to be inspired again. Listen to awesome jazz records that are mellow with no words, and just sit there and read a book, or space out on your couch. And eventually, all that inspiration comes. "
Kurt Vile
Words
You
Time
" It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on. "
Kurt Vile
Long
I Am
Best
" I actually often write about writing music and being in that zone. "
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Music
Write
Zone
" I find that I get nervous before I play. Even sound checks can give me anxiety and screw with my mind. But as long as I can play a little acoustic guitar backstage if I'm feeling nervous, so I don't have to walk in there cold turkey, I'll be fine. "
Kurt Vile
Long
Guitar
Anxiety
" I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it. "
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Like
Mean
Sad
" I always sort of liked Mesa/Boogies, but I wasn't sure if they were cool or not cool. "
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Always
Were
Sure
" I've gotten a lot more paranoid in my older age. "
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More
Paranoid
Age
" A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. "
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Time
Lot
Song
" I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all. "
Kurt Vile
Feeling
Thinking
You
" There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same. "
Kurt Vile
Ways
You
Same
" I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs. "
Kurt Vile
Home
Dark
Me
" If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever. "
Kurt Vile
Like
McDonald
Whatever
" Nobody wants a complainer. "
Kurt Vile
Wants
Complainer
Nobody
" I got depressed so many times by my blue-collar life and self-conscious about the fact that I didn't go to college. I was always working super low-end jobs, being the complete opposite of what I wanted to be. "
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Go
Working
Always
" I really like Cold Cave. "
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Really
Cold
Cave
" I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere. "
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Been
Known
Out
" I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything. Even with my last day job, I'd sleep in later and later and start coming in an hour-and-a-half late. I got fired twice before I really got fired. "
Kurt Vile
Sleep
Start
Deep
" I can be chill. That's a side of me that I like. But then, I can also be not so chill. I can get a little stressed out. "
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Side
Like
I Can
" I go through ups and downs in the psyche all the time, and then once you start moving again, it's amazing how you can always bounce back. You get, like, in a low rut, and you think, 'This is it; my life is a train wreck.' And then you bounce back again. "
Kurt Vile
Think
My Life
Life
" Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives. "
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Everybody
Goes
Up
" I get to come home to my family. It's awesome, just constant adventure, never a dull moment. So much life. "
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Home
Life
Adventure