Kevin Drew famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and to the idea of always moving around. ...Obviously, whenever you're going through something that's the best time to create, if you're going through something amazing, or horrible, or nothing at all you should be creating. Unfortunately the songwriters of today generally torture themselves to make sure they're writing good songs and take it a little too seriously.
-- Kevin Drew

#Song #Moving #Writing
Everybody has their own ways of wanting to do things.
-- Kevin Drew

#Way
People don't get that being a musician is a job, they don't get what the work takes. And that's just because you're living a dream, so everyone who's observing it from the outside can't really empathize with how much work it is because you're fortunate. And it's a kind of competition with yourself to stay away from all of the excess, whether it's booze or drugs or just the late nights with the addiction to watching the sun rise in some weird part of the world. But when you meet the other musicians, there's generally a spiritual exhaustion that you connect with.
-- Kevin Drew

#Dream #Spiritual #Night
You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.
-- Kevin Drew

#People #Listening #Going Out
We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.
-- Kevin Drew

#Honesty #Ideas #Want
You know and I know that as soon as it's done, you have to get it out there. You want what's best for it. And especially in owning a label, which some days is the greatest thing for me and in some days is my demise because you see the truth and the work that goes into things and you see things happen and you see things not happen, and all you want in this world of currency right now is popularity, that's it!
-- Kevin Drew

#Labels #Done #Demise
There's an interesting story around that ["Heaven Without a Gun"], because the girl I was dating at the time got into a bike accident and couldn't make it into the studio, and the gentleman Dave Hamlin who worked on this record along with Ohad sort of took it, rearranged it. Dave went and sonically changed it and changed the keys so that Andy could sing it better. All these pieces came together that suddenly displayed that the song was meant for Andy [Kim] to sing. And he always said, "I'll never understand it, but I'll sing it with all my heart."
-- Kevin Drew

#Girl #Song #Heart
I suddenly thought about being backstage, and I think it shocks you to meet the people you shared your bedrooms with. And a lot of them either take themselves too seriously or don't know how to take themselves at all. But I wanted to be aware in a very sarcastic way that every song I've written has probably been written about 12-16 times before. And doing that makes it very hard for me to accept serious singer-songwriters in the world, the up-and-comers, the ones who are out there who let that define their every move, who live and die and breathe for it. It's a bit of a tragedy, I think.
-- Kevin Drew

#Sarcastic #Song #Moving
As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making.
-- Kevin Drew

#Artist #Thinking #Expectations
There was this wonderful day where we sat and listened to all of Andy's [Kim] songs throughout the years, and I think we spent around six hours at my house, and then we played all these tunes of mine that have never found any version. And "Heaven Without a Gun" is one of them, and it struck him. If you can find a compadre who doesn't live in the literal world 'cos you're not always fighting to explain yourself to make sense, that maybe it's the dyslexia, maybe it's the dreamer, maybe it's the idea that grammar was not your foreplay - excuse me - see what I mean, your forte.
-- Kevin Drew

#Song #Mean #Fighting
I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.
-- Kevin Drew

#Differences #Bigs #Retiring
I have great relationships with all my exes, and everyone in my life, because I honor the time and the love and the energy of those relationships. I'm happy to say that I can have everybody over for dinner.
-- Kevin Drew

#Honor #Energy #Dinner
I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.
-- Kevin Drew

#Albums #Rooms #Bedroom
Obviously, everyone loves someone who appreciates you and puts you on a pedestal.
-- Kevin Drew

#Appreciate #Pedestal #One Love
Rules are what governs us as humans, but it was wonderful to meet a man who said "There are no rules. You gotta be what you gotta be and you gotta believe in it." I know that's a feeling I used to feel a lot at a younger age, and through the sense of responsibility and working with so many and taking on so many duties and actions, you lose if you don't stay on top of it. So that's what I love about this man, that there are no rules.
-- Kevin Drew

#Believe #Responsibility #Men
It's very hard for me to say "Do I have favorite?" because I find that each song represents a different sounds different emotions in Andy's [Kim] life. Particularly "Sister OK", 'cos that started everything.
-- Kevin Drew

#Song #Sound #Different
The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.
-- Kevin Drew

#Singing #Sound #Albums
I got a little lost in "Law & Order" and "Luther" and all those shows where it's basically women dying all the time, I had to stop watching that stuff because it fills me with anxiety. And I joined a gym.
-- Kevin Drew

#Order #Law #Anxiety
Being off the road is one of the greatest things ever. It's hard for me to be around my friends who are on the road.
-- Kevin Drew

#My Friends #Hard
I am 36 years old, I can't change. I have tried, trust me, but I can't. It's nice to get over yourself and just do it.
-- Kevin Drew

#Nice #Years #Over You
I could be dramatic and go "He saved my life!", but sometimes you just need to see it again. Sometimes you need to see that person want it so badly for all the right reasons, and it makes you realize that no matter what you do you already won.
-- Kevin Drew

#Needs #Want #Matter
It's hard: you get older, you have a career, the normal frustrations that come with what you do when you wear your heart on your sleeve and you try really heard. I was exhausted, and I couldn't quite see the magic of creating at that time. That's all. I couldn't get into it, and Andy [Kim] slowly resuscitated me, and that's how I made Darlings.
-- Kevin Drew

#Heart #Frustration #Careers
I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them around and exchanging things, but for a man who has the history that Andy Kim had, and has lived the life that he's had, you see such a youthful aspect of how he just wanted to create something again.
-- Kevin Drew

#Song #Writing #Men
You should never leave something with a feeling of defeat.
-- Kevin Drew

#Feelings #Defeat #Should
What would I say about "Heaven Without a Gun"? For me, to have this man, and our friendship [ with Andy Kim] grew really slowly and very consistently throughout the years before we decided to get into a studio together, I wasn't sure if he wanted to do songs that were pre-written or what. We didn't know what we were getting into.
-- Kevin Drew

#Song #Gun #Men

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