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I don't like to be doing the same thing over and over again, so I keep trying other things. - Samuel Ervin Beam

I learned early on that you do yourself a disservice trying to replicate the record onstage every night. As a player, and for the audience I think, it's a mistake. - Samuel Ervin Beam

As far as American directors, Terrence Malick is probably my very favorite. - Samuel Ervin Beam

When I put out a record I don't really like to do covers as much, but I don't mind playing them. I do them mostly for my friends. When a friend's like, 'Man I really like that song,' I go 'hahaha' and I go home and I record it. - Samuel Ervin Beam

We all have holes inside. We need love. - Samuel Ervin Beam

Back in '98 or so when I was in film school I was working on lighting for a movie in Georgia, out in the middle of nowhere at a gas station. Inside the gas station they had a bunch of old home remedies like castor oil, and one of them was a protein supplement called Beef, Iron & Wine. I just dropped the Beef part. - Samuel Ervin Beam

I like to keep working and keep changing. It's a hopeful, optimistic thing to think and sit about what you could do next. Maybe it's blind optimism. - Samuel Ervin Beam

I didn't really intend on having a music career. It just kind of happened. - Samuel Ervin Beam

My wife is a midwife, and there's only so many states where you can do that. Texas is a place where she can work. - Samuel Ervin Beam

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. One, I rarely have anything to say. It's much more interesting for me to discover some meaning that you didn't know that you could create. - Samuel Ervin Beam

The things that have been most popular with people have always been a total surprise, and so I've never felt like I could really truthfully predict public taste, so why bother? - Samuel Ervin Beam

I recognized that a lot in my writing I'm trying to show both sides of the coin - the sour and sweet. Iron & Wine seemed to fit with that duality and I thought it would be more interesting to call the project that rather than use Sam Beam. - Samuel Ervin Beam

Religion is a huge part of our consciousness. I grew up in the Bible Belt, so it's our mythology. Those are the stories we learn as little kids at Sunday school. I'm not afraid to use the metaphors, because I think the stories are beautiful. - Samuel Ervin Beam

Well, for me, I grew up in the Carolinas, and it's our mythology. Those are the characters that we learn about how to live life and moral lessons. It wasn't Zeus and Athena. It was Job and Jesus. - Samuel Ervin Beam

It's nice to play new songs, but it's nerve-wracking. - Samuel Ervin Beam

I was born in 1974, so I grew up listening to what was on the radio - my mom's car sounded like Fleetwood Mac, because that was what was on the radio. - Samuel Ervin Beam

I don't advertise what I do to my kids. I don't go around waving a flag. I'm sure they are proud, in a certain way. I'm not like 'hey kids - check this out.' No matter what they do, your dad is still your dad. Nothing is going to help you out in that regard. Dad is just not cool. - Samuel Ervin Beam

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