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

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

" My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

" Both labels are super awesome, with super awesome people who want to get stuff done. The biggest difference is that Sub Pop is already established, but working with Burger seems like we're part of something. They're growing, and I'm growing with them. They're my friends, and we're doing it together. "

" 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 find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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