118 Quotes by David Berman

I always had a background belief in God. In other words, instinctually I've never doubted that we are not alone.

I ask myself when I see a new album: 'Is this an album that they needed to make, or do they need to just keep making albums?'

I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the tradition of the young great writers of the '60s and '70s, but it hasn't turned out that way, or at least there are no other writers around that I look at and think: 'Wow, I'm outclassed, I need to get out of this business.'

My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and the one thing I can do is write narratives and build characters. I can do that.

I mean, I wasn't fortunate enough to have ever experienced starting out with a band and sticking with them, so that would be interesting to me. People whose bands start out like that, when they break up it's always terrible.

It frustrated me at college that all the acts in the Top 10 were like The Moody Blues and Phil Collins. It was like why did we get stuck with the last generation's music, why can't we have our own?

When people tend to be happier they have more interest in the world around them.

For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear the songs again.

Some people like my singing. But it sounds like bad singing to a lot of other people.