I dont write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. – Andrew Bird
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when youre still learning language. Its using the same part of the brain. – Andrew Bird
Honestly, I didnt have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions. – Andrew Bird
Whats cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesnt. I like that elusiveness. – Andrew Bird
There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said “Let us pray,” and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. – Desmond M. Tutu, “Religious Human Rights and the Bible”