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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by. "

" Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh. "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's cool to think about nursing, because a lot of people decide to go into it later in their lives. I could slip into school to be an LPN or an RN as a middle-aged man, and it wouldn't be unusual. "

" From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places a large guitar in your lap, it's hard - I'd learned how to play a guitar when I was a kid, but I never really felt like I was in control. "

" 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.' "

" My voice is not very dynamic. "

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

" The Music Machine is my favorite rock band ever. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it. "

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

" I was cripplingly shy. When I was in high school, my teachers thought I was mentally disabled because I wouldn't be able to say anything or do anything. They thought I didn't speak. "

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

" 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'm a huge Zombies fan. "

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

" 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. "