I don't really listen to rock music anymore. But were I to write a song that sounded like … - Dan Bejar

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If I do, I say so. That's the only way out of that. If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life. . . it's the magic words "I don't know. " I mean, there are certain basic principles, like the dignity of the individual and the individual's responsibility, and certain basic economic principles, like how when something costs less, more of it will be consumed. . . There are certain things that I feel pretty confident about.

Dan Bejar

I don't really listen to rock music anymore. But were I to write a song that sounded like it could be a rock song, I'd probably give it to the Pornographers, and I'd be excited to try to make it work.

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I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

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I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

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I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

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I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

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Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.

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