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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
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Craig Finn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 22
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As a writer, if you have something on a page, you can start moving it around and get something you like. But if you have a blank page, it's just gonna be a blank page.
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I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.
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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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