13 Quotes by Craig Finn about thinking

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    I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good line in a song should be something I can hear myself saying.

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    There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely try to do.

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    You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be hard for people to recapture. Hard for people to live with.

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    I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

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    I'm not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying you love that age as a storyteller because a nineteen-year-old is still dumb enough to make really bad decisions, but he's allowed to be out on his own.

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    I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and you turn it in to him, and he or she said, "That was pretty good, it might go better." Maybe that's what I'll try to find.

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    People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.

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    My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

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