“I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the mo...” — Andrew Bird Quote

I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage. I'm happy to be in that category.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

You need to be emotionally ready for a baby, and the best way to do that is to clean skeletons from your own closest. Deal with the baggage of your childhood, or you'll just pass it on to your kid.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.