52 Quotes by Frank Black

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.

She's gorgeous. She's got lips like Angelina Jolie.

I did start down that path some time ago,