Dan Deacon Quotes

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

One thing I love about Lady Gaga is I feel like her sound is always evolving and changing with her and her phases of life.

'99.9%' is the end product of years and years of me going through multiple styles and interests.

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.

My music is constantly changing because I am. I'm writing it and changing as I'm writing.

Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.