Quotes from Stephen Malkmus

I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.

'Summer Babe' is the start of Pavement front-loading their albums with the catchiest song first.

Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.

I hate being tan.

When you get older, you have to wrestle with what's appropriate behavior a little bit more. Am I not acting too old or too young?

I've always been attracted to negative influences - I thought that meant you were smart.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.

I've tried to rap, and I cannot do it.

In this achievement-based lifestyle, most of us have certain boxes we're checking to make us useful humans. But a lot of things you do as a parent are kinda invisible. There's a lot you achieve - just getting dinner on the table - that are more than making a song.

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

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