Craig Finn Quotes

I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.

I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.

There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.

There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely try to do.

My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.

I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.

I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."

The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.

You can't get every girl; you get the ones you love the best.

The more you release records, in some ways it takes pressure off you.

I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

Just looking into something kind of analytically can give a lot of ideas.

All of you favorite books wouldn't seem so well written if you were just a little bit more well read.

I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully.

If we enjoy what we're doing, we shouldn't really need a break.

People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together.

I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows.

All your books wouldn't seem so well written if you were just a little more well read.

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.

I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.

I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.

Gonna walk around and drink some more

Words and music together create powerful, powerful things.

People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.

The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it.

You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.

If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing.

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.