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" After discovering the Ramones, I discovered really crude ways to multi-track by taking another cassette recorder and plugging that into the eight-track, playing it back, so that as I was recording with the mic in my guitar, I could have another cassette player I had recorded on feeding into the recording. "

" All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've gone through. "

" A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical. "

" At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play. "

" At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music. "

" Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me. "

" Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness. "

" Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable. "

" Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile. "

" Every show I play is like a little celebration of something in my life that has gone really well. "

" For me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That's a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear. "

" From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places a large guitar in your lap, it's hard - I'd learned how to play a guitar when I was a kid, but I never really felt like I was in control. "

" Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into. "

" I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me. "

" I always felt weird. I don't feel particularly likeable. "

" I can finish a show and walk through the audience without being recognized. "

" I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it. "

" I don't know if i have a 'take' on L.A. The music community is enormous, from the studio musicians to the bands trying to 'make it' to the indie bands... so many bands... it can be overwhelming. But it seems healthy. "

" I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation. "

" I don't really have friends in general. I never have. I didn't go to college and didn't have friends in high school. "

" I don't want to meet anybody famous, usually. "

" I enjoy Dinosaur for what it is. It's a unique band that has a unique chemistry. "

" If you make a strange, eccentric record - like the Velvet Underground's 'White Light/White Heat' - it takes on its own mood because it's less about a shrewd marketing plan; it's more about an individual emotion. "

" If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it. "

" I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in. "

" I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos. "

" I have really severe tinnitus. "

" I have to focus and keep things together as much as anyone with a real job... It's just that I know, from experience, that the more fun I have doing something that the more successful it will be. "

" I hear people telling me a lot that the production of that particular record - 'One Part Lullaby' - really influenced them. I'm like, 'What? We were dropped from the label after that!' "

" I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand. "

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