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" I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells. "

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" The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff. "

" My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere. "

" Vermont will always be my home in my heart, but I really love L.A. "

" I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that. "

" It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth. "

" I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music. "

" It involved a lot of trust, but I love Bobby Harlow, and I loved the albums that he made. "

" I like recording by myself wherever I can, just because then I feel like I have ultimate freedom, and I can just control whatever I want to put down. There's something about going into your own little world. "

" I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain. "

" Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs. "

" I love the sound of '70s glam records. I love that snare sound. The recordings I like, it's all based on if the snare sounds good. The drums have to sound great. "

" I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan. "

" I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever. "

" I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious. "

" I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll. "

" You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive. "

" I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty of L.A. The first few times I came here, I was like, 'I don't know about this place.' Then one day, it just totally flipped for me. It was crazy. "

" My friends always had bands, and we would play together. "

" I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually happy that I never took lessons as a kid. Now, I'd like to take lessons to kind of go deeper. But I think sometimes lessons can steal a person's personality away, because they're trying to do things so technically. "

" I love collaborating with people, but I also really love working by myself. "

" I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice. "

" I played with the Lust-Cats once in Denver. I've seen Happy Jawbone a bunch of times, but I can't remember if I played those shows or not. "

" I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself. "

" Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band. "

" You do anything long enough, and somebody will end up paying attention to it. "

" I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller. "

" I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention span. "

" I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like. "

" I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it. "

" I loved living with my parents - that's probably why I did it for so long. But it was almost too easy to live there. I had to force myself to get out, had to challenge myself. I had to start a new chapter. "