50 Quotes by Matthew Sweet

Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.

They’re not your words, but you’re reciting the lines.

There are things that I value now that I didn’t when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.