24 Quotes by Jason Molina

From a guy that still doesn't have his foot in the world, I feel pretty grounded as long as I have music.

I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.

I write about eight hours a day, and I throw away most of what I write.

When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

We don't try to make a specifically commercially approachable kind of record. We're just trying to make the music we normally play and these are the audio choices that we have made for how to present the record.

I try to do collaborations with as many artists as possible. It's really excellent and fun to actually work with another songwriter.

I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.

These people who have everything at their disposal as far as cash and connections, I think they just get so mired in the business side of things that they don't just sit at home and record records. Anybody can do that.

As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.