Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Read full biography of Andrew Bird →
Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too... →
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.
A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do... →
There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more... →
Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put... →
I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or... →
I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give... →
I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go... →
In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be... →
Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.