Cass McCombs (born 1977 in Concord, California) is an American musician, best known for releasing a number of albums since 2002.
A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
With death comes a choice. And death is a choice.
That's the thing about inspiration, it just smacks you upside the head, you can't plan for it. It comes like a stranger in the night; you never know when it's going to come or leave, and you just have to deal with the in-between moments because there's nothing you can really do about it.
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.
Beggars can't be choosers. We don't have all the money in the world. So anyone who wants to be in the band and be broke - that's their own death wish.
As long as there are a few people there, I can lose myself, which is the ultimate goal. And that's happening more and more; the non-musical world is becoming less and less interesting to me.
To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as a sculptor to the state and church, making coins and things. While he admired Michelangelo, he also made fun of his spiritual angst with art.
All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.
I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.
I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.
Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.
It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
I think a master craftsman is someone who is unpretentious. He has a physical object in front of him and, while he works with a higher aim, he doesn't let his personality get in the way of his art. It's simply about the task at hand and to make it as functional and necessary to the world as he can.
When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.
If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.
I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.
I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.
When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.