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" 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

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

" 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. "

" Nobody wants a complainer. "

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

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

" When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not. "

" The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even 'Childish Prodigy,' I had a day job that whole time. Those early ones, they feel like psychedelic, blue collar records. Especially 'God Is Saying This to You,' there's such urgency in that album. "

" 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

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

Kurt Vile

Mental

Cause

" Life is mortal. There are all these rewards and consequences. Sometimes you embrace them, and sometimes they knock you over. "

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

" People can have their punk ideals, but I don't really care about that kind of thing. "

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

" I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things. "

" I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves. "

" 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 like the idea of having money. "

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

" 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. "

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

" After I play a gig, I'm like a different person: I have superhuman strength. "

Kurt Vile

Different

Strength

" I'm definitely influenced by Animal Collective. I watched them early on. "

" I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst. "

" 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. "

Kurt Vile

Feel

General

" Influence is all osmosis. "

Kurt Vile

Influence

" Some people are so sad that, at times, that's what gets on my nerves - if they just hammer the doom, with no comic relief whatsoever. "

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