Quotes from Stephen Malkmus

I had another version of 'We Dance' that was kind of glam-rock. It was a little 'Taking Care of Business' mixed with Simon and Garfunkel. But on the album, I did it in a down-and-out way, like the Frogs or David Bowie or something - a little torch song thing.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

I know why Migos are popular - they're good, and they make great videos, and they're funny.

Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

If you have no shame, and it's your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally.