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My heart is drawn to the small, out-of-the-way things that I can't help but to give my focus and attention and care, 'cause they shut off what hijacks my brain and help to tune out what can cause me pain.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Drawn
Tune
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I'm not trying to sound mean spirited, but I honestly don't know of many successful musicians who get that excited about other current artists' music. You're either a music fan, or you're a working musician.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Spirited
Current
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My most successful album happened back in the mid-'90s, pre-Internet times, with 'Songs For A Blue Guitar.' We were supported by Island Records; we toured a lot. Songs were licensed to TV commercials and movies.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Blue
Commercials
Island
Licensed
Toured
Tv Commercials
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'Writer's block' sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Block
Deep Down
Dramatic
Time Good Always
Worrisome
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Most Americans I play for are clueless as to who Richard Ramirez was, so you can imagine how audiences in Portugal react. I'm not saying they don't enjoy the music; I'm just saying they're a little lost on some references.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Clueless
Portugal
Audiences
React
References
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I'm just writing less of my own music lately - I go in and out of phases a lot. Sometimes there are these accidents that just sort of happen, that are kind of waiting around the corner. I guess Modest Mouse was one of them.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Accidents
Modest
Phases
Corner
Lately
Mouse
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Every artist has different priorities. Some artists I know don't make as much music as they used to, because social media has taken over their lives. I work at what I feel is a very normal pace, and things keep clicking. It's rewarding.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Media
Normal
Pace
Priorities
Social Media
Taken
Artists
Clicking
Rewarding
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Like many musicians, it's my roots in music, playing cover songs. I've done probably a lot more covers than the average person who does what I do, but I'm very proud of it, and I do feel like I really bring a lot artistically to these covers.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Done
Musician
Song
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Red House Painters were doing cover songs before our first record deal. I remember live shows where we did an AC/DC song; I think we did 'Send In The Clowns' by Judy Collins. We did 'The Star Spangled Banner,' which came out on our third record.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Banner
Collins
Judy
Live Shows
Painters
Spangled
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My dad still hasn't heard 'I Love My Dad,' and I'm sure he'll say something like, 'It's good, but I love your version of 'Little Drummer Boy'!' My dad loves my live albums - he's obsessed with the live version of 'Little Drummer Boy' for some reason.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Drummer
Love Good Dad
Version
Loves
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Your time is spent making records, planning, touring - not counting the days until another guy's concert. There are some newer artists I like in a casual, passing way, but I couldn't tell you the bass player's name or name two songs off of their new record.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Casual
Counting
Passing
Planning
Time Your New
Time New Way
Concert
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A friend of mine passed away unexpectedly at the very end of making 'Ghosts', someone who had been as close to me as someone could get, someone who was far too young. But I couldn't really sing about it for a long time - not in the way I would have wanted to.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Time Me Long
Ghosts
Unexpectedly
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I think that I've gotten a lot more relaxed, and I know how to go about getting a sound now. I know what to do to get the vibe right. As an example, when I'm doing vocals, I don't have six guys sitting out there in the control room, messing around, making faces.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Example
Faces
Relaxed
Sitting
Sound
Gotten
Guys
Messing
Room
Vibe
Vocals
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When you have to pass through a couple of kids with Uzis on your way out of Jerusalem, you don't forget those images. Getting out of your comfort zone is healthy. It's one thing to hear about how things work in other countries, but it's another thing to be there.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Jerusalem
Other Countries
Zone
Work Your Way
Images
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Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. It's just not where things are at right now, and it's just a matter of time until there's something going on where I feel compelled to write.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Blocked
Compelled
Periods
Life Time My Life
Throughout
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I'm not doing anything intentionally to stay in the public eye. I'm staying true to my art, like I always have. The press, for whatever reason, decided to zone in on what is very common banter for me. It got worked out through song - the same way I work everything out.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Public Eye
Staying
Zone
Work Art Me
Intentionally
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When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks, and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Depressing
Exhausting
Music Business
Redundant
Rocks
Stressful
Tension
Life Business Music
Certain Level
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I play shows sometimes, and if everything's connecting, I start blabbing to the audience about anything. Between songs, talking about things in my personal life, or whatever. But there are other situations where I feel a little closed-off. It's really kind of a day-to-day thing.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Connecting
Day To Day
Personal Life
Life Start Feel
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My perspective is so much different now, being 41. The main difference between now and then is just realizing that your time will come to an end - and that it might not be far away. You see your face change, see the gray hairs sprouting up. When you're 24, you worry about the day you'll turn 40.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Far Away
Gray
Now And Then
Realizing
Hairs
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If a fan approaches me and I feel like they have some kind of agenda, I'm probably gonna get real closed-off and not talk to them. But if I feel a connection with someone, or if I feel a certain trust with somebody, I feel like, 'You know what, I can open up to this person and tell them about an experience.'
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Agenda
Trust Experience Me
Approaches
Connection
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I'm homesick everywhere I go, but England has a negative effect on my spirit to a profound degree. That trip from Heathrow into London is worse than the flight over there. It's just so grey, and I'm not a pub person, and the traffic in London gives me a heart attack. It's not a comforting place, on any level, to me.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Comforting
England
Flight
Grey
Homesick
London
Negative
Profound
Traffic
Everywhere
Attack
Degree
Effect
Pub
Trip
Worse
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When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. After all of these years, I'm still trying to cope with aspects of it.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Challenges
Depressing
Trying
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Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. "Writer's block" sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.
Mark Kozelek / Singer-Songwriter
Block
Worry
Writing
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