A lot of what I’ve written that’s made its way onto my records I’ve written in Kansas, which is interesting because I’ve never written about Kansas. But I go have these experiences. and I’ll be back at my parents house, and it’s like I’m in a safe incubator. Kevin Morby Read Quote
Singing Saw’ was exactly seeing through my eyes; ‘City Music’ let me write from somebody else’s perspective, somebody living in New York. Kevin Morby Read Quote
I grew up in the Midwest and never really felt at home there, and when I got to New York, I was really fearless. I feel like I really fell in love with the the place. But then, it’s a place where your world is really big at first and then becomes really small. I found myself hardly leaving my neighborhood, like I made it into a small town. Kevin Morby Read Quote
I wanted to write a song called ‘#1234’ that would act as a homage to The Ramones. Kevin Morby Read Quote
One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you’d be at a stoplight, and you’re with everybody; there’s a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you. Kevin Morby Read Quote
I do not know what kind of relationship Jim Carroll and The Ramones had, though I imagine they all knew each other, as they ran in the same scene. Kevin Morby Read Quote
On ‘City Music’, I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes. Kevin Morby Read Quote
To be alive at all is so crazy, to experience the wide spectrum of feelings and emotions is so wild, but we have nothing else to compare it to, so it becomes normal. Kevin Morby Read Quote
You’re at LaGuardia, and you get in a cab, and it’s taking you into Brooklyn, and you’re on the BQE, and you can see the skyline, the whole skyline, and it’s so beautiful. Kevin Morby Read Quote
