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People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

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Craig Finn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 22
Musician
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Boston
Massachusetts
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Something
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People
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At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right.
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The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous.' It's a record I always go back to.
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I don't have a problem rhyming bar with car - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.
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If we enjoy what we're doing, we shouldn't really need a break.
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An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.
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I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.
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A conversation with you is a different thing than projecting to a couple hundred people. It's bigger and more animated and it's on a bigger scope, but still in the heart, it's honestly me.
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I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.
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I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.
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One thing I have a tendency to do is not write choruses, or write choruses that have different words. The first chorus will have different words than the second chorus.
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I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.
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I made a decision at some point to live a nontraditional life. I've become like, the opposite of a consumer. I just want freedom. I don't want stuff. I don't want clutter. I just want to be able to move freely. I want to be good to the people I love. But I don't want stuff. I just want, you know, love and big ideas.
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Springsteen on that record started writing less about having your wind in your hair and turning the radio up and more about being dragged down by adult things. Regular people trying to get ahead. A little less mythical and romantic, and more real. It's a really spectacular record for that reason.
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You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.
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One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.
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Some people I've talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we were writing Stay Positive, I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully. This record, I think actually was us aging gracefully.
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