Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.
Evan Dando

But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.
Evan Dando

But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.
Evan Dando

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.
Evan Dando

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
Evan Dando

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
Evan Dando

I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.
Evan Dando

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
Evan Dando

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.
Evan Dando

I have to make rock records occasionally.
Evan Dando


I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.
Evan Dando

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.
Evan Dando

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.
Evan Dando

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.
Evan Dando

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.
Evan Dando

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.
Evan Dando

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.
Evan Dando

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.
Evan Dando

It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.
Evan Dando

My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.
Evan Dando