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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My friends ask me what it's like moving from Vermont to L.A., but no matter where I am, I pretty much just end up sitting in coffee shops, thinking about songs. "

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

" 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. "

" Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3. "

" Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "