Words matter. These are the best Isaac Brock Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I didn’t mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident – I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, ‘Well… I guess this is what I’m doing. I just can’t find a better alternate.’
I watch the same cartoons over and over again. I watch Adult Swim. I watch ‘Futurama’ repeatedly.
I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, ‘This is a Modest Mouse song’ or ‘This is an Ugly Casanova song.’ The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.
I was living down in this awful little redneck town in Oregon, and everyone else was living in Seattle, so we rented a house in Portland, between the two.
Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.
Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke – I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
When I do write, it happens really easily. I’ll just kind of sing along to whatever I’m playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
I don’t much like things to go by somebody’s name, like the ‘Bob Jones Group Jam Band.’
I don’t think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
I toy around with the whole Biblical thing, just as amazing characters.
Science, science is great. I love science. With any luck, it’ll save us all.
The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad’s brother, who was the second person my mom married.
I’m not a big fan of the interview. It’s a lot of questions I don’t have answers for, a lot of questions about the music industry.
I’ve gotten into surfing a bit. I can’t stand up for more than five seconds, but I like the fact that I can paddle out into oblivion.
As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it’s worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I’m trying to say. I can’t ‘Bono’ it.
I remember the last time the Grateful Dead played in Seattle, at the Seattle Center. I was living there, and after the show, I was walking to work near there, and I’d never seen so much debris. There were mountains of garbage.
Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.