Zitat des Tages von Bill Callahan:
I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years.
My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.
I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming.
I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.
Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.
Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time.
I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And I can't really speak for my subconscious.
I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.
At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours' walk, come back in, and record. And then the sun came up. If I had done something good, then I'd be happy and go to sleep.
To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.
I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because, if everything feels okay, I'm ready to put it to music.
My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
Music is a social act.
From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.
