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" I've never been good at playing live in front of people. "

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" 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. "

" There are very few songs I really hate. "

" I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I always felt weird. I don't feel particularly likeable. "

" 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. "

" I have really severe tinnitus. "

" At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play. "

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

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

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

" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

" 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. "

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