I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.
Stephen MalkmusSo much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."
Stephen MalkmusIt's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, "You're a dad, and how's fatherhood?" If Bob Dylan or Neil Young had a kid, it didn't seem like it made them a different person. It didn't make you old right away.
Stephen Malkmus