I have the same birthday as George Washington. No I don't. I don't even know who George Washington is. Andrew VanWyngarden More Quotes by Andrew VanWyngarden More Quotes From Andrew VanWyngarden I love movies and I think that we wouldn't ever stop making videos just because people aren't watching them. I think that's just kinda sad. It would be cool to spend a lot of money, but we'll always make videos just for ourselves. Andrew VanWyngarden being-cool people thinking In general, the musicians we met that made the most sense just said to do what feels right and try not worry about what other people think. I know that sounds stupid and simple. I feel like Neil Young has done that and he's still making albums. He's one of the people I really look up to as someone who has kind of stuck to their guns their whole career. Just making music for music. Andrew VanWyngarden gun simple stupid We're really into combining lots of different styles into one song: that's normal for us. It might seem arbitrary but we listen to a lot of music that does that. Andrew VanWyngarden style different song We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and confront people. Andrew VanWyngarden annoying musical people Live we're a lot louder and noisier on the album. I think for the album we took a lot of time for the songwriting and we wanted to make good pop music, and I think there's plus and minuses to doing pop music and noise. Andrew VanWyngarden pop-music songwriting thinking I was nervous during Radiohead, we thought that they would hate us. I think when we played in LA, one of the dudes from Entourage was in the audience, and that was kinda weird. If anyone would make me nervous it would be David Bowie, Neil Young, someone like that. Andrew VanWyngarden nervous hate thinking The main reason we didn't break up is because we weren't really a college band. We were just, two dudes who were messing around with music. We never played off-campus except for once or twice. We never had any ambitions to make it as a band after college, or anything like that. So that probably worked in our favor. We never took anything seriously, we still don't! Andrew VanWyngarden ambition college reason FACT!: I wanna live in a castle. Andrew VanWyngarden castles facts
