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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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 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

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" 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 get to come home to my family. It's awesome, just constant adventure, never a dull moment. So much life. "

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

" Anybody that's from somewhere that's made it in music outside of New York or L.A., if it's a unique enough place, they'll always say, 'Dude's from Minnesota!' Or wherever, you know? So that's how I got the Philly connection. "

" 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. "

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

" All of my surroundings influence my songwriting. It's autobiographical, although I leave enough space so it's relatable. "

" I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything. "

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

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

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

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Paranoid

Age

" I had a really fun time working with the HARRYS guys and their whole crew. "

" 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 definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved. "

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

" When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at it. "

Kurt Vile

Always

Thought

" I like to laugh at dark things. "

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Dark

Things

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

" 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. "

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

" There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same. "

" There's so many FM hits that I love. Bob Seger, there's two of his songs that I love. I would probably love more, but I don't sit around listening to Bob Seger records. It's the same thing with Tom Petty; he writes amazing hits, but it's not often that I sit around at home listening to a whole Tom Petty 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

" I'm always working on music. "