Sometimes I’ll go without writing for a while and I’ll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I’ll sit down and a dozen songs will pop out. It’s fun. Kim Shattuck Read Quote
I got sick and tired of hearing bands that didn’t mean anything to me. I mean, there are some bands out there that are good, but if you want to hear stuff you want to hear, you got to do it yourself. Kim Shattuck Read Quote
I’ve always had something turning in my brain. And it got to a point where I felt it was stupid to let some of the tunes die. So I began putting them down on paper. Kim Shattuck Read Quote
I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you’re Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don’t have much say in the decisions that affect their work. Kim Shattuck Read Quote
I’m glad we’re not splattered all over MTV, because I don’t think that’s entirely the right way to go about building a career. Look at Green Day – they were built up – and then came crashing down. The overexposure is just too much of a burnout for most people. Kim Shattuck Read Quote
I have that weird thing where, if someone confronts me, I just get as bold as possible. Kim Shattuck Read Quote
Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I’m narrow-minded and a purist. I’d never mess with it. Kim Shattuck Read Quote
When people hear sing-songy melodies, they think the lyrics will be nice, too. I guess there’s a depressing or psychotic side to my personality that pops out in the lyrics. Kim Shattuck Read Quote
I was going through a lot of upheavals in my brain. The only way I could really get stuff out was to write songs. Kim Shattuck Read Quote
