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" I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won't answer her phone within one minute. I'm sensitive. "

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" On one level, we're on Matador, but our amps still might explode on stage, or they'll be an echo in the mic. It's like climbing a ladder. I like to climb it really slowly. I could probably get really professional right away, but I like to take baby steps and find my own way. "

Kurt Vile

Professional

Baby

Ladder

" I think if you just travel in general, it allows you to step outside of yourself and whatever you're familiar with. "

" I had a really fun time working with the HARRYS guys and their whole crew. "

" I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory. "

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Mental

Cause

" We'll play somewhere like London, playing to 2,000 people easy, and every time you play with more people, you think, 'You're a rock star,' and it makes you laugh. I guess I am, but I'm also, you know, not. "

" The real reason I was lo-fi before was really just because that's what I could afford. "

" I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there. "

" I'm always working on music. "

" My cousin used to make fun of me for liking stuff like C+C Music Factory. I didn't have any tapes; I just liked their song on the radio. We liked that because that was what we had access to. "

Kurt Vile

Fun

Song

" It was just the next logical step from making succinct pop songs. What do you do after that? You make pop songs that are longer and more epic, that push the envelope. Imagine your favourite song, or something that you play over and over in the car, except that you don't have to start it over as much. "

" 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. "

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McDonald

Whatever

" Even when I haven't played in a while, I can sit down and start with a chord, and just drop into it. It's like this tunnel I go into. The zone is where I want to live. "

" Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I'm more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be hypnotic. "

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Feel

General

" That's one of my favorite Matador records: Cat Power, 'You Are Free.' "

" I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything. "

" No offense to Boston, but I was glad to get out of there. I think it's just because I'm from Philly. Honestly, the blue collar side of each are pretty similar in ways, but something about the makeup of your brain, Philly versus Boston. It's a lot different, in weird ways. "

" Every time I play with somebody, your perspective gets a little extended. It always rounds you out a little more in some way. "

" That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away. "

Kurt Vile

Music

Right

" Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives. "

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Everybody

Goes

" I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing. "

" I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head. "

" When I leave a recording session, there is usually a lot of paranoia or superstition on my part, like I'm afraid to hear what we've done. "

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Afraid

Leave

" 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. "

" I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot. "

" I do a lot of things, and I'll get excited about them - maybe it'll be a song in a movie - and then it comes out, and you're like, 'Aww, that was cool, but it wasn't quite as big a deal as I thought it would be.' "

Kurt Vile

Cool

Big

" When I was a teenager, I was mostly getting tapes and CDs, and somebody hipped me to the fact that you can get things on vinyl that are not necessarily available on any other fomat. "

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Somebody

Fact

" I really like Cold Cave. "