Matthew Sweet

First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#anyone #bands #cheap #effect #even

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#classical #crazy #elements #even #folk

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

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I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#did #feel #fun #had #having

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#birthday #birthday party #brian #came #dyke

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#could #i #instead #label #my own

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#curious #ever #explore #felt #had

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs). ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#instead #just #labels #laughs #like

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

— Matthew Sweet

#birthday #birthday party #dinner #dyke #him

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. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#buddhism #couple #first #i #last