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" 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. "
Lou Barlow
You
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Reflect
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" 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. "
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" Now, when I have a four-string that I take on the road with me, it's a regular Martin. I bought a decent Martin with a pickup in it, and then I just take off the strings and have four strings on it. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation. "
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