106 Quotes by Craig Finn

I’ve tried to write songs for other people and it usually requires them singing it and then changing the phrasing. I can put a lot of words in a song, and one of the reasons is, I’m not that good of a singer, so I don’t hold a lot of notes.

The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we’re really happy about it.

If we enjoy what we’re doing, we shouldn’t really need a break.

Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, “We write to find out what we’re thinking.” And sometimes that happens.

Before I had a driver’s license, and I lived in the suburbs of Minneapolis and went to high school and came home – I could ride my bike around or get a ride from my parents, but my world was pretty small, limited. Like anyone at that age, I only knew things I could get to.

The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You’re playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.

I’m not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying you love that age as a storyteller because a nineteen-year-old is still dumb enough to make really bad decisions, but he’s allowed to be out on his own.

When you get into rock ‘n’ roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it’s ridiculous, but everyone’s heard it.

There’s a lot of ways to be honest that don’t necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that’s something I absolutely try to do.