DANIEL KESSLER: To this day, Paul’s a pretty tardy person. Back then, as an eighteen-year-old, we were in this French class together, and he’d come in, and it would be a crazy tale about why he was late. It really did happen, in a way, but it was part of his disposition, too. PAUL BANKS: I’m a mess sometimes. DANIEL KESSLER: But he always carried himself with an air of confidence, an air of belonging; even as an eighteen-year-old, he wasn’t awkward or shy. We talked about music for a minute, and I could tell we didn’t aesthetically have a lot in common. PAUL BANKS: I listen to old hip-hop.
