Stephen Malkmus

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

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.