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" Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you. "

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" Around '93, the radio started playing 'Loser' by Beck and 'Cut Your Hair' by Pavement, and then I got way into Pavement. That was kind of a gateway drug into indie rock. I got all their B-sides, and I got that 'Hey Drag City' comp, so I got into all those Drag City bands. "

" I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst. "

" I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment. "

" I love polished pop music, but stuff like Neil Young's Crazy Horse vibe or Waylon Jennings, that stuff is raw and real. "

" Australia is a wild place. "

" Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny. "

" The real reason I was lo-fi before was really just because that's what I could afford. "

" Nobody wants a complainer. "

" Love is intense, and sadness is intense. "

" Anybody that's from somewhere that's made it in music outside of New York or L.A., if it's a unique enough place, they'll always say, 'Dude's from Minnesota!' Or wherever, you know? So that's how I got the Philly connection. "

" When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there. "

" If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever. "

" I go through ups and downs in the psyche all the time, and then once you start moving again, it's amazing how you can always bounce back. You get, like, in a low rut, and you think, 'This is it; my life is a train wreck.' And then you bounce back again. "

" I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it. "

" I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything. "

" If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad. "

" It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on. "

" I got depressed so many times by my blue-collar life and self-conscious about the fact that I didn't go to college. I was always working super low-end jobs, being the complete opposite of what I wanted to be. "

" Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I'm more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be hypnotic. "

" I can be chill. That's a side of me that I like. But then, I can also be not so chill. I can get a little stressed out. "

" People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it. What am I gonna do? "

" After I play a gig, I'm like a different person: I have superhuman strength. "

" I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there. "

" I've gotten a lot more paranoid in my older age. "

" I've got an amazing family. My wife is really smart. She's guided me the whole way. With children, you see them grow up, so it's like you're forever young. They are totally innocent and so unjaded. Watching them grow up makes you go through it again yourself. "

" 'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn. "

" Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through and bands don't usually skip on tour. There are lots of music resources, but it's not too over the top. "

" I like to laugh at dark things. "

" All of my surroundings influence my songwriting. It's autobiographical, although I leave enough space so it's relatable. "