Top 33 Kim Shattuck Quotes

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

People that don’t talk are constipated. I’m sorry, but if you can’t communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

I hate it when songwriters go on and on with the same idea.

It was only later that I found out there was good ’70s rock like the Raspberries and the Flaming Groovies. I always gravitated toward the ’60s music more, though, like the Kinks, the Who and the Beatles, of course.

I’m a basically decent person.

I’ve actually said ‘get off my grass’ to people before. They were skateboarding on my grass!

Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I’m narrow-minded and a purist. I’d never mess with it.

Sometimes I’ll go without writing for a while and I’ll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I’ll sit down and a dozen songs will pop out. It’s fun.

I’m still a fan of the Pixies!

The one thing about songwriting that’s been consistent is that I do it for the love of a good melody.

I’m glad we’re not splattered all over MTV, because I don’t think that’s entirely the right way to go about building a career. Look at Green Day – they were built up – and then came crashing down. The overexposure is just too much of a burnout for most people.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

There was a show at the Mayan in Los Angeles where I got overly enthusiastic and jumped into the crowd, and I know they weren’t thrilled about that. When I got offstage the manager told me not to do that again. I said, ‘Really, for my own safety?’ And he said, ‘No, because the Pixies don’t do that.’

When I wanted to join the Pandoras, my mom had an anxiety attack.

I like clubs, I like sweat, I like people right up in my space.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that’s when it flows easily.

I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn’t know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn’t listen to much as kid.

For a show, I can bear a little longer than 45 minutes, not including encores.

My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early ’80s.

The Beatles were a huge influence on me to write really good melodies.

When people hear sing-songy melodies, they think the lyrics will be nice, too. I guess there’s a depressing or psychotic side to my personality that pops out in the lyrics.

You can’t have an ego when you’re a team. One person can’t really rule the roost.

I am a perfectionist and the only reason why I started producing is because I didn’t want to argue with a producer.

I gravitated toward photography. That’s what I really did well.

I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn’t like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop songs, but was driven nuts because the guitars were so wimpy sounding. So I decided to put the two together. That’s how the Muffs started.

I love having the control over the end result and not having to go through some committee to get something approved. I feel sorry for people, like actors, because unless you’re Woody Allen or Mel Gibson, they don’t have much say in the decisions that affect their work.

When I first wanted to play guitar it was because I had seen Brian Setzer. He’s so good! I mean I was just blown away.

I have that weird thing where, if someone confronts me, I just get as bold as possible.

I got sick and tired of hearing bands that didn’t mean anything to me. I mean, there are some bands out there that are good, but if you want to hear stuff you want to hear, you got to do it yourself.

I’ve been singing quieter because I live in a thin-walled apartment.

I’ve got too much fire in my blood.

I was going through a lot of upheavals in my brain. The only way I could really get stuff out was to write songs.

I just don’t like to do photography for money.