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If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing.
Craig Finn
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Craig Finn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 22
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It's really easy, in a band, to overstate - you feel like everything you do is different than the past. I think this is just another Hold Steady record, but at the same time, there is some evolution. Like, How can we make this chorus bigger? What do we want this to sound like?
Craig Finn
If we enjoy what we're doing, we shouldn't really need a break.
Craig Finn
I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and rent this house in upstate [New York]. I still have the story, but I got 15,000, 20,000 words in and it was like, This is falling apart. I can't figure out.
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If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, 'Hey, here's 10 more songs'.
Craig Finn
I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.
Craig Finn
I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.
Craig Finn
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.
Craig Finn
I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.
Craig Finn
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.
Craig Finn
An album doesn't mean as much to a lot of people now, compared to just songs.
Craig Finn
You can't get every girl you get the ones you love the best.
Craig Finn
I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.
Craig Finn
If we enjoy what we're doing, we shouldn't really need a break. It's fun for us to play music. It's our livelihood, but I don't look at it as a job. It doesn't seem to me to be a problem to constantly be doing this.
Craig Finn
I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.
Craig Finn
I'm not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying you love that age as a storyteller because a nineteen-year-old is still dumb enough to make really bad decisions, but he's allowed to be out on his own.
Craig Finn
I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.
Craig Finn
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.
Craig Finn
Some people will totally get restless, since you can make demos pretty easy. It's not unreasonable for someone to say, All right, can you just record this and go home and work on it?
Craig Finn
I don't have a problem rhyming bar with car - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.
Craig Finn
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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