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

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Life

Consequences

You

" 'Street Legal' is like a cult classic. It's pretty cheesy at times, but you learn to embrace it. "

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Embrace

You

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

" Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through and bands don't usually skip on tour. There are lots of music resources, but it's not too over the top. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it. What am I gonna do? "

Kurt Vile

Sometimes

Help

" A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. "

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

Kurt Vile

Different

Strength

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Kurt Vile

Mental

Cause

" 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

" 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've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere. "

" I love polished pop music, but stuff like Neil Young's Crazy Horse vibe or Waylon Jennings, that stuff is raw and real. "

" I proved myself with 'Smoke Ring.' It was me maturing. I made a good pop record. "

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Smoke

Made

" 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. "

" I like the idea of having money. "

" Nobody wants a complainer. "

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

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Paranoid

Age

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment. "

" 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.' "

" I like to laugh at dark things. "

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Dark

Things

" 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

I Can

" 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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Working

Always