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I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

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Stupid, Big, United States, Percentage

I'm a fan of the Grateful Dead.

- Stephen Malkmus

Grateful, Dead, Fan, Grateful Dead

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

- Stephen Malkmus

Cave, Very, His, Nick

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.

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Famous, Without, Being, Delighted

I am good at just looking in the kitchen and getting stuff on the table and keeping the mess minimal. There's an art to the drudgery.

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Art, Mess, Keeping, Just Looking

'Silence Kid' starts with a broken classic-rock intro. It's funny to hear us do that. Obviously, we weren't skillful rock stars. Then it's spinning through a lot of hooks really fast, and all of a sudden, it's over.

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Rock, Kid, Through, Rock Stars

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

- Stephen Malkmus

Living, Survive, Couple, Freaks

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.

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Always, Singers, Mine, Drawer

I'm not saying I look at those pictures all the time and think, 'Wow, I was hot.' Just, you know, I think everybody deserves to be objectified at least once in their life.

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Think, Everybody, I Think, Wow

I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

- Stephen Malkmus

Point Of View, I Think, Electronic

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

- Stephen Malkmus

Voice, Nice, Without, Lyrics

With Pavement, we had no managers and never had a lawyer. We got lucky with not signing any bad deals.

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Lucky, Never, Pavement, Managers

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

- Stephen Malkmus

Song, Pavement, Albums, Babe

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.

- Stephen Malkmus

Another, Had, Mixed, Bowie

If I watch a basketball game, I don't really care if a guy hit a three-pointer with three seconds left. I mean, I can like that. But I'm more interested in who drafted him and what makes him special.

- Stephen Malkmus

Game, Three, Guy, Drafted

Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality.

- Stephen Malkmus

Reason, Narrative, Larger, Brutality

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.

- Stephen Malkmus

Song, Very, Almost, Songwriter

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

- Stephen Malkmus

Sound, Album, Like, No Point

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

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Mission, Write, Compatible, Chart

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

- Stephen Malkmus

Records, Like, Though, Hustle

Pop music catches on like a meme. It just takes a little bit of tinder, and it can become a phenomenon. You have to break through that wall a little bit. Why it happens, I don't really know.

- Stephen Malkmus

Meme, Through, Like, Pop Music

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.

- Stephen Malkmus

Parent, Achieve, Checking, Lifestyle

I'm a junior - like Dinosaur Jr.

- Stephen Malkmus

Dinosaur, Like, Junior

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

- Stephen Malkmus

Never, Studio, Mostly, Producers

I would be happy to produce groups, like John Cale - he was in the Velvet Underground, and then he went on to produce these bands.

- Stephen Malkmus

Happy, Be Happy, Like, Velvet

If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

- Stephen Malkmus

Records, I Think, About, Waste Of Time

I wouldn't say that 'Wowee Zowee' was a success. We probably had a chance, had I focused a little more, to capitalize on the attention the band got for 'Crooked Rain.'

- Stephen Malkmus

Rain, Chance, More, Crooked

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

- Stephen Malkmus

Proud, Musicians, Want, Ban

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

- Stephen Malkmus

More, Move, Scenario, Describing

John Waters is a genius.

- Stephen Malkmus

Genius, Waters, John, None

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