194 Quotes by Stephen Malkmus

I've always been attracted to negative influences - I thought that meant you were smart.

I'll cover just about anything - except for a Kid Rock song.

I wouldn't say that 'Wowee Zowee' was a success. We probably had a chance, had I focused a little more, to capitalize on the attention the band got for 'Crooked Rain.'

I'm not saying I look at those pictures all the time and think, 'Wow, I was hot.' Just, you know, I think everybody deserves to be objectified at least once in their life.

I would be happy to produce groups, like John Cale - he was in the Velvet Underground, and then he went on to produce these bands.

I hate being tan.

Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality.

I am good at just looking in the kitchen and getting stuff on the table and keeping the mess minimal. There's an art to the drudgery.

'Summer Babe' is the start of Pavement front-loading their albums with the catchiest song first.