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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. "

Lou Barlow

Myself

People

Thoughts

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Lou Barlow

Just

Situation

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I can finish a show and walk through the audience without being recognized. "

" 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 like to collaborate with other people for studio recordings because I believe collaboration, in any form, makes music better. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music. "

" 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. "

" I like all the obnoxious Eagles stuff that just drives people crazy. I love 'Life In The Fast Lane' and 'Hotel California.' "

" Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh. "

Lou Barlow

Simplicity

Core

" 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. "

" My experience with Dino Jr. proved that making new music was a worthwhile pursuit. "

" The first songs I ever wrote - my first, like, serious offerings - were all written on ukulele. It's always been a part of the way I write for a really long time. "

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

Lou Barlow

Just

I Can

" I think all food except for maybe pizza and Mexican food is better in Japan. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

Lou Barlow

Think

Cool

" I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in. "