"Failures teach you more, there's always something fundamental about them."

“And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.”

“We took out the safe haven in Afghanistan, but now there is, undoubtedly, a larger safe haven and we must rise to this occasion in collaboration and with alliances to confront it, and invest in the future much better human intelligence so we know what the next steps are.”

“In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But this is not a perfect world, and it is enough to hope that each of us will share our talents, and find the balance between greed and benevolence that will allow us to live and thrive and help the world around us grow.”

“I guess some people like to just stick with their sound, like Weezer or something, but I think I just try to keep it as close to my real life, in a Neil Young sort of way, as possible.”

Source : "Exclusive: Kurt Vile on the Paranoia and Process Behind His New Record". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. July 21, 2015.

“I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.”

Source : Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. April 3, 2006.

“We handed the most important belongings of our people -- the railroads and the banks -- to aliens who 2000 years ago had turned the temple into a house of usury. Back then there was a man who had the bravery to drive out these scoundrels with a whip! If today a national socialist is seen with such a temple-whip, he's thrown into jail.”

“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”

“I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon."”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com