I wanted kimi to be a japanese record with a japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. — Matthew Sweet
The openness of rural nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. — Matthew Sweet
They’ll be nice and get into it and have fun.’ and it was the first record I made at my home studio. — Matthew Sweet
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
Creativity is much better when it’s free. Someone can take it and sell it if that’s what it needs — Matthew Sweet
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
I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record. — Matthew Sweet
I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It’s not that I don’t want success, but I now know — Matthew Sweet
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. — Matthew Sweet
It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put — Matthew Sweet
It wasn’t so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be — Matthew Sweet
There are things that I value now that I didn’t when I first went over there, like zen buddhism — Matthew Sweet
