The thing I love about John Lennon, and Elvis Presley, for that matter, is that they were really insecure guys and, to me, that’s what makes them such thoroughly human artists. No matter how cool they play it, you were still left with the feeling of a real, human experience. Put on any Elvis record, even on of his worst - maybe especially one of his worst - and you can hear his vulnerability just oozing off the grooves. You don’t get that from the “cool” artists today. They’re too busy playing it cool. —Mark Oliver Everett in Things The Grandchildren Should Know (Abacus)