John Britt Daniel quotes:

I don't wanna keep playing the same song over and over again. It's just thinking about "what's going to be the coolest thing to play on this particular show?" The easiest thing to do is to play the single over and over again.

I guess if we do enough shows and keep doing it long enough, then people will get the picture. But I can't really be bothered if they don't get the picture. That's not my concern.

I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate.

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.

I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

It's hard being the guy that brings in a song, because you're very, you know, it can be something that you get too sensitive about.

It's cool because you don't know how certain songs are going to go over until you play them live. For some reason, "Shivers" gets a huge response. I was not expecting it. When I start singing in the middle of "Baby Get Worse", they go nuts. Just little surprises like that.

The fastest I ever did that was when Kill the Moonlight came out after Girls Can Tell, and I remember both labels I was working with at the time saying, "If this was any other period, I would probably say this is too fast, but because this is first time anybody has ever paid attention to Spoon, let's keep it on an upward trajectory."

I had some really great experiences doing overdubs.

There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.

Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.

I'm used to coming up with a lot of parts. And I don't have to do that so much [with Divine Fits]. This is the kind of band I've always wanted to be in because we never set up any aesthetic rules when we started it. We just wrote and edited, and it ended up sounding like Divine Fits.

I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.