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" Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal. "
King Tuff
Liberal
Town
Small Town
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" I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever. "
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Van
" I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it. "
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Sun
Because
" I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller. "
King Tuff
Country
Blues
Top
" I like recording by myself wherever I can, just because then I feel like I have ultimate freedom, and I can just control whatever I want to put down. There's something about going into your own little world. "
King Tuff
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Control
Feel
" I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music. "
King Tuff
People
Dog
Think
" You do anything long enough, and somebody will end up paying attention to it. "
King Tuff
Will
Attention
Long
" You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive. "
King Tuff
Alive
Dive
Down
" I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there. "
King Tuff
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Find
You
" I played with the Lust-Cats once in Denver. I've seen Happy Jawbone a bunch of times, but I can't remember if I played those shows or not. "
King Tuff
Remember
Once
Denver
" I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain. "
King Tuff
She
Blink
Show
" Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs. "
King Tuff
Years
First
Different
" I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like. "
King Tuff
Art
Great
Yourself
" I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty of L.A. The first few times I came here, I was like, 'I don't know about this place.' Then one day, it just totally flipped for me. It was crazy. "
King Tuff
Beauty
Place
People
" I love the sound of '70s glam records. I love that snare sound. The recordings I like, it's all based on if the snare sounds good. The drums have to sound great. "
King Tuff
Good
Records
Love
" I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan. "
King Tuff
Music
College
Listening
" I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious. "
King Tuff
Everything
Science
Mysterious
" I loved living with my parents - that's probably why I did it for so long. But it was almost too easy to live there. I had to force myself to get out, had to challenge myself. I had to start a new chapter. "
King Tuff
Challenge
Live
Start
" Both labels are super awesome, with super awesome people who want to get stuff done. The biggest difference is that Sub Pop is already established, but working with Burger seems like we're part of something. They're growing, and I'm growing with them. They're my friends, and we're doing it together. "
King Tuff
Together
Doing
Burger
" I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually happy that I never took lessons as a kid. Now, I'd like to take lessons to kind of go deeper. But I think sometimes lessons can steal a person's personality away, because they're trying to do things so technically. "
King Tuff
Happy
Guitar
Think
" My friends ask me what it's like moving from Vermont to L.A., but no matter where I am, I pretty much just end up sitting in coffee shops, thinking about songs. "
King Tuff
Coffee
I Am
Moving
" My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out. "
King Tuff
Brother
Conformity
Me
" I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells. "
King Tuff
Weird
Sit
Light
" I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice. "
King Tuff
Practice
Because
Good
" My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere. "
King Tuff
Moments
Out
Best
" I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll. "
King Tuff
Mind
Rock
Think
" That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything. "
King Tuff
Food
Eat
Everything
" My friends always had bands, and we would play together. "
King Tuff
Play
Together
Always
" The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff. "
King Tuff
Myself
Music
King
" I love collaborating with people, but I also really love working by myself. "
King Tuff
Really
Myself
Love
" Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band. "
King Tuff
Time
People
Go