I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.More Michael Rolfe Gira quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.More Michael Rolfe Gira quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place to hide.More Michael Rolfe Gira quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to "make it" in the stinking music business, to become "famous" etc, and it disgusts me.More Michael Rolfe Gira quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.More Michael Rolfe Gira quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]