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

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" I've learned by experience that, if I get too clever with lyrics, or if I'm not totally embodying my own wants and needs in the songs, I can't remember them. "

" I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that. "

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

" 'One Part Lullaby.' It was our big major-label record. People reference it quite a bit, but it did absolutely nothing. It's like the 'Kids' soundtrack. It did nothing. It didn't start anything for me. "

" With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego, by playing this loud rock music. "

" When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele. "

" I think musicians naturally gravitate toward music that sounds real. "

" I'm the haphazard engineer of my own music. "

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

" I've always tried to make music for someone who's never heard anything I've ever done. "

" The Music Machine is my favorite rock band ever. "

" I'll figure something out by writing a song about it. "

" 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. "

" I'm the Folk Implosion's biggest fan. "

" Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear 'Love' by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment, it will bring me to tears. "

" Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life. "

" I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be. "

" I'm fully aware, I've gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It's not a really big deal; it's something I can deal with. "

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

" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

" The first songs I ever wrote - my first, like, serious offerings - were all written on ukulele. It's always been a part of the way I write for a really long time. "

" I have really severe tinnitus. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas. "

" Young bands are so angry. There are young bands that are so incredibly successful, getting incredible reviews, and they are totally angry. "

" I like to collaborate with other people for studio recordings because I believe collaboration, in any form, makes music better. "

" When you're in a band, it's kind of a big thing to be friends as well. "