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" 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. "

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Always

Thought

" 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. "

" I like New York. I like Philly. I like San Fran. I like when people are stoked. But Chicago's a real music town, and they're really good to us there. There's just something in the air there; people are just really stoked about music. Every time I go there, I have a great time, and the fandom is really heartwarming. "

" 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. "

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

" My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day. "

" 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. "

Kurt Vile

Side

I Can

" I like a well-rounded life. All of this work is kind of useless if you don't have something good to come home to. "

" I always sort of liked Mesa/Boogies, but I wasn't sure if they were cool or not cool. "

" 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

" I think that I identify with Philadelphia for a lot of reasons. Without even thinking about it, I called myself 'Philly's Constant Hitmaker' when I first got a MySpace, before I had any real hits. It was kind of just a funny slogan, basically lifted from the Rolling Stones' first album, 'England's Newest Hit Makers.' "

" Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you. "

" Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny. "

" Humor is important. Nothing against bands that are always a downer, but the reality is - it just becomes theater. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Kurt Vile

Working

Always

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

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Mental

Cause

" I want really badly to just be funny in a movie but be close to myself. "

" I like the idea of having money. "

" I've gotten a lot more paranoid in my older age. "

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Paranoid

Age

" John Prine in particular... just the chord changes combined with the words. He definitely can make you cry a little bit. Just a little bit. "

" I benefit from a change of scenery; it's always inspiring. "

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

" 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.' "

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Cool

Big

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" Influence is all osmosis. "

Kurt Vile

Influence

" I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have. "