Britt Daniel Quotes

There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.

I do go through periods of obsession with certain records.

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

I'm usually pretty insecure.

When we're recording, I always dress up.

I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

I like sparseness. There's something about that minimalist feel that can make something have an immediate impact and make it unique. I'll probably always work with that formula; I just don't know how.

There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.

I'm into it, I'm into MP3's; I think there's no way you're ever going to be able to legislate people having to buy a record in order to listen to it. You have to look at it as a means of promotion, and if the music is good enough, promotion is a good thing.

The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?