Andrew Bird Records Quotations

The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.

I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.