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

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" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

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" With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego, by playing this loud rock music. "

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" 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. "

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" I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most. "

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

" 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. "

" I like to collaborate with other people for studio recordings because I believe collaboration, in any form, makes music better. "

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

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

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

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" I've always tried to make music for someone who's never heard anything I've ever done. "

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" I love making records, and part of really doing that and being happy about it is just that each time I've done something, I come to terms with what maybe is wrong with it, and then I move on to the next thing. "

" Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker. "

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