"I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Cass McCombs

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with.”
“Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.”
“The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.”
“Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?”
“No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea.”
“That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.”
“...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.”

Source : Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.111, Simon and Schuster
“The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.”

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