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Bill Callahan

Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.

— Bill Callahan beautiful

I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I've always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that's not necessarily spiritual.

— Bill Callahan power

There are a million tiny weird towns. You never know what you're going to get into if you drive an hour into the wild.

— Bill Callahan weird

Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.

— Bill Callahan writing

You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

— Bill Callahan men

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.

— Bill Callahan age

I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.

— Bill Callahan think

I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.

— Bill Callahan person

I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years.

— Bill Callahan home

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

— Bill Callahan real

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

— Bill Callahan art

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.

— Bill Callahan life

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

— Bill Callahan writer

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.

— Bill Callahan fiction

Music is a social act.

— Bill Callahan music

My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.

— Bill Callahan mistakes

My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.

— Bill Callahan time

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

— Bill Callahan people

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

— Bill Callahan world

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.

— Bill Callahan war

At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours' walk, come back in, and record. And then the sun came up. If I had done something good, then I'd be happy and go to sleep.

— Bill Callahan good

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

— Bill Callahan time

I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because, if everything feels okay, I'm ready to put it to music.

— Bill Callahan music

I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.

— Bill Callahan music

I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.

— Bill Callahan man

Every day I dont Google my name, theres another beautiful day.

— Bill Callahan beautiful

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