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" 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. "

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" 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

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Kurt Vile

Somebody

Fact

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's too many favorite songs, so I'll just say right now my favorite song of all time is 'Poison' by Bert Jansch. "

" I really like Cold Cave. "

" 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 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. "

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

Kurt Vile

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 don't have anything to get off my chest. I'm not itching to prove myself anymore. "

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

" 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 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

" I'm always working on music. "

" My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes. "

" I like the idea of having money. "

" 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

McDonald

Whatever

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

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

Kurt Vile

Different

Strength

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

" Even when I played in little league as a kid, I liked making friends, but I didn't want to be there, really. "

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