100 Quotes by Kurt Vile

I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs.

Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives.

My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.

Love is intense, and sadness is intense.

Life is mortal. There are all these rewards and consequences. Sometimes you embrace them, and sometimes they knock you over.

I like the idea of having money.

My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day.

I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.