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" I think all food except for maybe pizza and Mexican food is better in Japan. "

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" Worry is a big part of my life. I definitely worry a lot. "

" 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. "

" If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it. "

" There are very few songs I really hate. "

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

" I wrote 'Healthy Sick,' from our first LP, when I was 19. I'll happily play it till I'm 91 because it always feels good and truthful. "

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

" '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. "

" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

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

" 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. "

" I've managed to alienate most of what would be considered the core audience that I'm supposed to have had. "

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

" Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh. "

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

" 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. "

" Los Angeles was really beautiful, and California in general is a great place to live. "

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

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

" To be doing interviews in 2006 for a band I was kicked out of in 1989 - a band that I never thought I would play for again - in a way, it's weird. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Sebadoh were always kind of the un-band. We never really lived in the same town. "

" I've been trying to cut down on caffeine because it seems to aggravate my middle-age-onset acne, but I'm too tired to care. I'm growing a beard to hide it. "

" I wrote a song for my sister's wedding. "

" 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. "

" The minute we first started recording 'Defend Yourself,' I thought, 'Yeah. We're going to have to deal with a really terrible review from Pitchfork for this record.' "