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" I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos. "

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

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

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

" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are very few songs I really hate. "

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

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

" My voice is not very dynamic. "

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

" All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've gone through. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm a huge Zombies fan. "

" 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 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!' "

" I really don't have a method. I gravitate towards the organic/acoustic, but I still often complete songs musically before attempting to find the lyric. "