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" I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing. "

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

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" Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life. "

" I've put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and musical challenges to myself, thoughts I was keeping myself busy with, nothing I had any intention of anybody grasping onto. "

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" People in the Midwest, there's a lot of regional pride and a lot more, like, fake positivity - 'That's great - you're awesome!' "

" That's what I've figured out over the years - the way I write makes people feel uncomfortable. "

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

" 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. "

" Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first. "

" It's kind of crazy how music helped me overcome the anxieties that I have. "

" I'm the haphazard engineer of my own music. "

" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

" Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas. "

" It just takes me awhile to get comfortable in any situation. "

" I don't really have friends in general. I never have. I didn't go to college and didn't have friends in high school. "

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

" I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me. "

" 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. "

" J. makes me laugh. He's incredibly dry and has a pretty harsh sense of humor that I enjoy. "

" It's weird to say, but Sebadoh is kind of Dinosaur Jr. Jr. My two bandmates in the early Sebadoh era, Jason Lowenstein and Jeff Gaffney, were huge Dinosaur fans. They were very influenced by Dinosaur. "

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

" I have to focus and keep things together as much as anyone with a real job... It's just that I know, from experience, that the more fun I have doing something that the more successful it will be. "

" Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way. "

" A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical. "