A biography for Lou Barlowhasn’t been written yet.
“I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be.”
“Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.”
“I was cripplingly shy. When I was in high school, my teachers thought I was mentally disabled because I wouldn't be able to say anything or do anything. They thought I didn't speak.”
“I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing.”
“Within Istanbul, there's a ton of people who are totally hip - like, the hippest people you could ever meet.”
“Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker.”
“With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego, by playing this loud rock music.”
“All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've gone through.”
“I'm the Folk Implosion's biggest fan.”
“I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.”
“I'm realizing I need to be in close proximity to everyone I'm working with because that - I don't know - it keeps me engaged.”
“'One Part Lullaby.' It was our big major-label record. People reference it quite a bit, but it did absolutely nothing. It's like the 'Kids' soundtrack. It did nothing. It didn't start anything for me.”
“The first songs I ever wrote - my first, like, serious offerings - were all written on ukulele. It's always been a part of the way I write for a really long time.”
“'Brace the Wave' is an acoustic-electric record recorded with electricity on analog-digital and digitally-analog equipment.”
“I'm the haphazard engineer of my own music.”
“I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.”
“My family is the epicenter of my life.”
“I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me.”
“I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand.”
“Just from the beginning, I really liked playing around with tape recorders. And then, when I got into punk rock, I only really liked - the rawer it was, the more I was into it.”