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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. "

Lou Barlow

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" Worry is a big part of my life. I definitely worry a lot. "

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

" I don't know if i have a 'take' on L.A. The music community is enormous, from the studio musicians to the bands trying to 'make it' to the indie bands... so many bands... it can be overwhelming. But it seems healthy. "

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

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" 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.' "

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

" If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to 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. "

" It's cool to think about nursing, because a lot of people decide to go into it later in their lives. I could slip into school to be an LPN or an RN as a middle-aged man, and it wouldn't be unusual. "

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" There are very few songs I really hate. "

" I don't really have friends in general. I never have. I didn't go to college and didn't have friends in high school. "

" 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 don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it. "

" I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 look forward to so many things about going to Japan. The shows are early. It's great! They're really early, so it helps make dealing with jetlag a little easier. "

" Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker. "

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

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

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

" To bicker over what could have been is silly. "

" Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way. "

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

" NYC is a wonderland full of passionate music fans. Once I got over being intimidated by rock critics and finicky hipsters, I realized that NYC was a great place to play. "

" I enjoy Dinosaur for what it is. It's a unique band that has a unique chemistry. "

" I hear people telling me a lot that the production of that particular record - 'One Part Lullaby' - really influenced them. I'm like, 'What? We were dropped from the label after that!' "

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