Quotes from Paul Banks

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

You were like a cloud, you were just like a flower, then you were a lime, now our love is sour.

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative