Cass McCombs Writing Quotations

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.

When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.