Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

I benefit from a change of scenery; it's always inspiring.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

I can be chill. That's a side of me that I like. But then, I can also be not so chill. I can get a little stressed out.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

Around '93, the radio started playing 'Loser' by Beck and 'Cut Your Hair' by Pavement, and then I got way into Pavement. That was kind of a gateway drug into indie rock. I got all their B-sides, and I got that 'Hey Drag City' comp, so I got into all those Drag City bands.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

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

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

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.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

I think if you just travel in general, it allows you to step outside of yourself and whatever you're familiar with.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

I go through ups and downs in the psyche all the time, and then once you start moving again, it's amazing how you can always bounce back. You get, like, in a low rut, and you think, 'This is it; my life is a train wreck.' And then you bounce back again.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

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.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

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.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

Love is intense, and sadness is intense.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

I've got an amazing family. My wife is really smart. She's guided me the whole way. With children, you see them grow up, so it's like you're forever young. They are totally innocent and so unjaded. Watching them grow up makes you go through it again yourself.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I'm more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be hypnotic.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

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.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

I proved myself with 'Smoke Ring.' It was me maturing. I made a good pop record.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

Some people are so sad that, at times, that's what gets on my nerves - if they just hammer the doom, with no comic relief whatsoever.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

'Street Legal' is like a cult classic. It's pretty cheesy at times, but you learn to embrace it.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

Humor is important. Nothing against bands that are always a downer, but the reality is - it just becomes theater.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.

Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile

If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.