- Interviewer: and i wanted to ask you about this before we left... i think it's awesome.
- Carlos: this, what? the uh-
- Interviewer: the holster.
- Carlos: well thanks, thanks a lot
- Interviewer: and i don't know if anyone's ever done that before
- Carlos: um, to my knowledge, they haven't. but it wasn't, you know, me trying to be an individual
- Paul, Daniel & Sam: *giggles*
- Carlos: wasn't me trying to be an innovator, to wear the holster
- Daniel: if i get followers, so be it
- Carlos: yeah, so be it. exactly. i'm not gonna like stop them.
I hear it’s the girth that counts. But “Girth of Love” didn’t have the same ring to it.
Paul Banks (via obstaclespecialist)
(via obstaclespecialist)
Source: nerve.com
Being in a band that does well is almost like being a girl.
Paul Banks (via obstaclespecialist)
(via obstaclespecialist)
Source: nerve.com
We’ve encountered a good amount of anti-American sentiment on this tour. Much more than normal. There was a journalist in Stockholm who had interviewed some of us before the show. Afterward, in the dressing room, he commented that he was surprised that we knew anything being that we were Americans. I don’t recall if it was simply implied that Americans were stupid or if he outright said it, but the arrogance of it caught me off guard. I contemplated punching him in the face and throwing him out. If there’s anything I detest, it’s jackasses talking shit in our dressing room immediately after a gig. Both Carlos and I told him that he was a jackass. He said that he was just expressing the predominant sentiment in Sweden. I told him to get out. He didn’t think I was serious. I said I was. He got up and tried to shake my hand. I didn’t take it. He said, “But you know I’m writing a piece about you guys tomorrow.” What an asshole. It was just the way he said it, unsolicited, with a little weasel smirk. Anyway, we just found out that he did wind up writing a really bad piece about us. I regret not having smacked him.
Paul Banks : Tour diary for SPIN Magazine (via psychedtodie)
Source: psychedtodie
- TL: I’m going to read you a quote… Let’s see if you can guess who wrote it: “To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.”
- PB: Who is it by? A man or a woman?
- TL: A man. It’s a novel.
- PB: Who?
- TL: Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer.
- PB: But he wasn’t a singer!... It reminds me of a chapter in one of his books where he’s with a friend who draws for art magazine and they’ve run out of alcohol and he claims that he doesn’t need any alcohol because he can get drunk with water, and he drinks a glass of water and starts acting like a madman. What you just read reminds me of that aspect of his personality, all you really need in life is to let go, that’s what kept him moving…
Source: revista-animal.com
I don’t really spend much time looking for new sounds, your ears become very sensitive. I rather listen to older things that I’m familiar with, they make me feel good. It’s sort like owning five records and listening to them over and over again.
Paul Banks
Source: revista-animal.com
Sometimes, if you try to create a molecule, you may have all the right ingredients but the wrong formula, but other times things just work out. That’s kind of what happened with the band.
Paul Banks
Source: revista-animal.com
- TL: What would you be if you weren’t a musician?
- PB: I don’t know… I’m interested in all the arts. If I weren’t a musician I’d be a painter… I’d try to be a painter or a writer. But if I had to choose something that didn’t have anything to do with art I guess I’d be a volunteer somewhere…
Source: revista-animal.com
I lived in Spain but I wasn’t interested at all in art back then, I was too young. Before I lived in Mexico I lived in the States but it was pretty boring. And when I came to Mexico… It was a very stimulating experience. Many of the people I met weren’t artists, but their personalities were works of art per se… I think having met them was a landmark to my creativity and it put me on a whole new road.
Paul Banks
Source: revista-animal.com
The impression Mexico left in me is so great you’re going to think I’m trying to fool you. It really changed my life. The people I met and the influence they’ve had on me… I don’t think I’d be the artist I am today and I wouldn’t be standing where I am now if I hadn’t lived here.
Paul Banks
Source: revista-animal.com
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