Matthew Sweet Quotes

You know that they’re not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

They said, ‘If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?’ So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there’s one person who doesn’t like flying as much as me, it’s Brian.

There are things that I value now that I didn’t when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn’t a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.