“I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this ...” — Kurt Vile Quote

“I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze.”

“I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.”

“I find that I get nervous before I play. Even sound checks can give me anxiety and screw with my mind. But as long as I can play a little acoustic guitar backstage if I'm feeling nervous, so I don't have to walk in there cold turkey, I'll be fine.”