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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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 remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic. "

" I have really severe tinnitus. "

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

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

" One thing about when I came back into Dinosaur that was really cool was that pretty much anybody that J. was working with who had a long-term relationship with J. were people I really liked and that I actually may have already known. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I can finish a show and walk through the audience without being recognized. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" To be doing interviews in 2006 for a band I was kicked out of in 1989 - a band that I never thought I would play for again - in a way, it's weird. "

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

" My experience with Dino Jr. proved that making new music was a worthwhile pursuit. "

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" I think all food except for maybe pizza and Mexican food is better in Japan. "

" I have to focus and keep things together as much as anyone with a real job... It's just that I know, from experience, that the more fun I have doing something that the more successful it will be. "

" When I first started writing songs, I did play with my fingers, and I had these kind of weird strums. There's, like, three or four strumming patterns that seemed kind of unique to me. "