Hipster Quotations

I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus...

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.