I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We're tired, but the songs are really lived in by then. Jason Molina More Quotes by Jason Molina More Quotes From Jason Molina Being in love means you are completely broken, then put back together. The one piece that was yours is beating in your lover's breast. She says the same thing about hers. Jason Molina being-in-love broken mean I love what I know about passion, I love what I know about mercy, I love what I know about patience, I love what I know about soul, and I know you. Jason Molina passion soul sweet My heart is sick / and I didn’t make it out. Jason Molina my-heart sick heart There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached the singing. The band was able to really capture the feeling of the songs and not really trade anything that we had sort of arranged for the live presentation, but the songs just aren't as loud. Jason Molina singing feelings song When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone. Jason Molina phone touch write cell-phone I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure. Jason Molina listen write more music From a guy that still doesn't have his foot in the world, I feel pretty grounded as long as I have music. Jason Molina feel music long world I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music. Jason Molina doing music long believe I try to do collaborations with as many artists as possible. It's really excellent and fun to actually work with another songwriter. Jason Molina possible try work fun I like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence. Jason Molina you confidence work song These people who have everything at their disposal as far as cash and connections, I think they just get so mired in the business side of things that they don't just sit at home and record records. Anybody can do that. Jason Molina think business home people The consistency - either the theme from record to record, or the band, the different musicians - it really varies. So if I get criticism, I don't worry about that, because I'm still being creative. Jason Molina musicians consistency creative worry I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town. Jason Molina look think horizon sometimes In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do. Jason Molina always songwriting singing language I write about eight hours a day, and I throw away most of what I write. Jason Molina away write about day I feel a lot of guilt about the freedom that being an artist provides. I ask myself, 'Why am I not the guy emptying the trash, why am I the guy who is watching the guy empty the trash?' Jason Molina feel myself freedom artist As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in. Jason Molina i-am me music community I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it. Jason Molina than just try world At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these. Jason Molina will go myself me
