You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be hard for people to recapture. Hard for people to live with. Craig Finn More Quotes by Craig Finn More Quotes From Craig Finn There's this moment sometimes, when you do a crossword puzzle and you have the one really long word. And once you get that, the whole thing kind of comes into focus. Sometimes it's just working things over in your mind and then finding that one line that kind of ties the song together, and now it works. It's a puzzle of sorts. Craig Finn tiessonglong In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone. Craig Finn tonewritingsong I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right. Craig Finn rhymingbarscar Ironically, when I was playing in my first band, I would deliberately not write down any lyrics. I have a really good memory and I would just keep them in my head. Craig Finn bandwritingmemories Some people will totally get restless, since you can make demos pretty easy. It's not unreasonable for someone to say, "All right, can you just record this and go home and work on it?" Craig Finn recordshomepeople My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket. Craig Finn my-wifepocketswife The Catholic influence just comes from being raised Catholic, going to church every Sunday, being confirmed, going to church on holy days. So it's coming from where I am. It serves the purpose of having people who have a base or foundation where they know what's right. Craig Finn holy-dayssundaypeople I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band. Craig Finn bandeaglessong I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage. Craig Finn collegehomeschool The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it. Craig Finn fanspeoplefirsts When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it. Craig Finn rock-n-rollrocksband My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that. Craig Finn writingpeoplethinking People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul. Craig Finn guitarheartthinking An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs. Craig Finn songmeanpeople There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London. Craig Finn fascinationbandreal If we enjoy what we're doing, we shouldn't really need a break. Craig Finn enjoybreakneeds The more you release records, in some ways it takes pressure off you. Craig Finn recordspressureway I think, Trump ran a very nostalgic campaign. There's an idea of like, to put it bluntly: What if it was like before all our kids got strung out on drugs? You know, what if it was like that? Make America like that. Craig Finn drugkidsthinking I made a decision at some point to live a nontraditional life. I've become like, the opposite of a consumer. I just want freedom. I don't want stuff. I don't want clutter. I just want to be able to move freely. I want to be good to the people I love. But I don't want stuff. I just want, you know, love and big ideas. Craig Finn decisionpeoplemoving There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London, so I think we've tapped into some of that. Maybe because of the way the press works or whatever, they have extremely knowledgeable music fans over there. People who will sit there and talk to you about some record that came out in 1967 out of Memphis that you've never heard before. Craig Finn realpeoplethinking
