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" 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. "

Lou Barlow

Doing

Band

Weird

" 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. "

" Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable. "

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

" 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. "

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

Lou Barlow

Just

Situation

" 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. "

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

" NYC is a wonderland full of passionate music fans. Once I got over being intimidated by rock critics and finicky hipsters, I realized that NYC was a great place to play. "

" 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. "

" I really don't have a method. I gravitate towards the organic/acoustic, but I still often complete songs musically before attempting to find the lyric. "

" I'm the Folk Implosion's biggest fan. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Lou Barlow

Brain

Write

" Young bands are so angry. There are young bands that are so incredibly successful, getting incredible reviews, and they are totally angry. "

" There are very few songs I really hate. "

" 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 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 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. "

" I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation. "

" Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear 'Love' by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment, it will bring me to tears. "

" 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. "

" I'm realizing I need to be in close proximity to everyone I'm working with because that - I don't know - it keeps me engaged. "

Lou Barlow

Need

" I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be. "

" All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've gone through. "

" I think musicians naturally gravitate toward music that sounds real. "

" 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. "

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