“I don't know what the sound is or the song is until I've spent a lot o...” — Adam Granduciel Quote

“I don't know what the sound is or the song is until I've spent a lot of time on it. I'm always chipping away at it, rethinking it.”

“I immediately felt welcomed, whereas in Massachusetts, I'd grown up there but I felt like such an outsider. Within a week or two of moving to Philly I felt there was something I could be a part of.”

“My mom and dad never really had friends, never went on vacations. We stayed home. And I see a similarity there: A general anxiety runs pretty deep.”

“I just suck at chipping.”

“I'm always chipping away at myself, fine-tuning the music that I want to do and the influence I want to have.”

“Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you would a piece of pottery or a stone sculpture, chipping away the parts that don't make sense, smoothing over the rough edges.”