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Stephen Joseph Malkmus (born May 30, 1966) is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.

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One time I went to Berlin and, for some reason, everywhere I was going they had fishbowls. Like a fishbowl by your bed or a fish tank in the bar. They seem obsessed with this IKEA version of nature, which a fishbowl kind of is. They had that going on. I just don't really like having a goldfish by the side of my bed. I feel kind of sad for it, rather than happy. But I thought that was really weird. Maybe they have human fishbowls.

Everywhere, Kind, Obsessed, Reason, Tank, Weird

Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.

Anachronistic, Criticism, Guitar, Memorable, Play

Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.

Jagged, Say, Song, Time, Virtue, Way

You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more. It's not like we're traveling in separate buses to each show. It's a labor of love, so we just do it because we like it. Maybe someone's gonna move, or not want to go on a tour for some reason - that could happen, I guess.

Goes On, Guess, Like, Move, Moving, People

I'm not a go-to-the-gym type guy. I've tried before. And I'm not a jogger.

Guy, Jogger, Tried, Type

We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!

Bad, Fearlessly, Notes, Singing, Unafraid, Wrong Things

I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.

Enough, Osbourne, Singing, Sound, Thinking

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

Flow, Forget, Listen, Nice, Voice

[As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.

Leather Pants, Listen, Nice, Radio, Wear, Would Be

It's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, "You're a dad, and how's fatherhood?" If Bob Dylan or Neil Young had a kid, it didn't seem like it made them a different person. It didn't make you old right away.

Away, Dad, Kids, People, Sort, Young

I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.

Frontman, Like, Mind, Play, Playing, Thinking

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

Like, Reeds, Sing, Singers, Song

The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.

Like, Narrative, Nice, Song, Writing

Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.

Hip Hop, Rocks, Slacker, Song, Way

When you do a cover it's a way to get attention clicking on something. At the Quiet Music Festival, The Jicks did this Nirvana song, very unrehearsed and not important, but then all the websites were like, "They covered Nirvana!" People like covers of famous people.

Clicking, Important, People, Quiet, Song

You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype.

General, Hype, People, Realize, Surprised, Thinking

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

Band, Cool, Hustle, Like, Records

If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

Giving, Guitar, Records, Thinking, Time, Whole

Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.

Attitude, Back, Important, Lyrics, Seems

We always did our own mixing.

Mixing

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