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" 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. "

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Kurt Vile

Young

Crazy

Horse

" I'm just used to the L.A. music life. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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 like to laugh at dark things. "

Kurt Vile

Dark

Things

" 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. "

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

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

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

Kurt Vile

Different

Strength

" 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. "

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

" I really like Cold Cave. "

" 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

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

" 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'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. "

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

" Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you. "

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

" I actually often write about writing music and being in that zone. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

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

" 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'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. "

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