You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.
Paul BanksJeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.
Paul BanksI got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.
Paul BanksI had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible clichรฉ sandwiched in between absurd non-clichรฉs because I thought it gave the clichรฉ a new resonance. It kills me when my lyrics are misquoted, but as long as people are quoting them right, I don't care what anybody has to say about them.
Paul Banks