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

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" 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. "

" 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 was cripplingly shy. When I was in high school, my teachers thought I was mentally disabled because I wouldn't be able to say anything or do anything. They thought I didn't speak. "

" I wrote a song for my sister's wedding. "

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

" 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. "

" That's what I've figured out over the years - the way I write makes people feel uncomfortable. "

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

" Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness. "

" 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. "

" I've managed to alienate most of what would be considered the core audience that I'm supposed to have had. "

" 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. "

" My voice is not very dynamic. "

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

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

" The minute we first started recording 'Defend Yourself,' I thought, 'Yeah. We're going to have to deal with a really terrible review from Pitchfork for this record.' "

" J. makes me laugh. He's incredibly dry and has a pretty harsh sense of humor that I enjoy. "

" It just takes me awhile to get comfortable in any situation. "

" I have really severe tinnitus. "

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

" It's kind of crazy how music helped me overcome the anxieties that I have. "

" I prefer to read into other people's songs what I want to hear in them. "

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

" Within Istanbul, there's a ton of people who are totally hip - like, the hippest people you could ever meet. "

" I like all the obnoxious Eagles stuff that just drives people crazy. I love 'Life In The Fast Lane' and 'Hotel California.' "

" I've been trying to cut down on caffeine because it seems to aggravate my middle-age-onset acne, but I'm too tired to care. I'm growing a beard to hide 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. "

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

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

" 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. "