“I was a big fan but it wasn’t like, ‘I’ve got to work with these guys.’...I was wary that just because you’re a fan doesn’t mean you can do something for them. But knowing Pavement I could see what I could do to retain its quality but be a little far-reaching in their appeal.” - Nigel on the initial decision to produce Pavement
“I got a message saying that Nigel was a really big fan. Then I found out that Beck, my one rock star friend besides Justine Frischmann, was doing a record with him. He said, ‘You’d really like Nigel. He does a really good job and he’s fast.’ It grew from that.” - Stephen Malkmus
“I could see how it works now, but at the time, I thought it had to be my way. Scott decided it had to be done in a different order.” - Nigel on the sequencing of Terror Twilight
“Nigel had an idea that it should be a certain way. I guess we were quite surprised by it, because he hadn’t really done anything in the recording process that was really as big a deal as that. He had done a lot more of the subtle things with sound, using effects in the studio, and for him to be quite adamant about the sequencing of the songs was kind of surprising. I actually liked it because it meant that he got into the whole recording process and then felt very strongly about the sequence.” - Mark Ibold on the sequencing
All quotes sourced from the book, Perfect Sound Forever.