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" I love Devo. There's nothing not to like. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

" Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness. "

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

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

" At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music. "

" 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. "

" Every show I play is like a little celebration of something in my life that has gone really well. "

" Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me. "

" 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. "

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

" I have really severe tinnitus. "

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

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

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

" There are very few songs I really hate. "

" For me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That's a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear. "

" 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. "

" Now, when I have a four-string that I take on the road with me, it's a regular Martin. I bought a decent Martin with a pickup in it, and then I just take off the strings and have four strings on it. "

" Young bands are so angry. There are young bands that are so incredibly successful, getting incredible reviews, and they are totally angry. "