Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
Stephen MalkmusI didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
Stephen MalkmusI'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.
Stephen Malkmus