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" Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into. "

Lou Barlow

Harmony

Early

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" I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most. "

Lou Barlow

Brain

Write

" I wrote 'Healthy Sick,' from our first LP, when I was 19. I'll happily play it till I'm 91 because it always feels good and truthful. "

" I've put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and musical challenges to myself, thoughts I was keeping myself busy with, nothing I had any intention of anybody grasping onto. "

" 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. "

" I've never been good at playing live in front of people. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

Lou Barlow

People

Big

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

" I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing. "

" Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness. "

Lou Barlow

Real

Awfulness

" I love making records, and part of really doing that and being happy about it is just that each time I've done something, I come to terms with what maybe is wrong with it, and then I move on to the next thing. "

" Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh. "

Lou Barlow

Simplicity

Core

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm realizing I need to be in close proximity to everyone I'm working with because that - I don't know - it keeps me engaged. "

Lou Barlow

Need

" 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 always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me. "

Lou Barlow

Always

" It's weird to say, but Sebadoh is kind of Dinosaur Jr. Jr. My two bandmates in the early Sebadoh era, Jason Lowenstein and Jeff Gaffney, were huge Dinosaur fans. They were very influenced by Dinosaur. "

" 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. "

Lou Barlow

Think

Cool

" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

" Most of the times that I've written break-up songs, it's been different because I was always trying to get back to something: get back to a situation or talk my way or sing my way back into the relationship. "

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

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

" I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation. "

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

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