Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't want to meet anybody famous, usually. "

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

" I have really severe tinnitus. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh. "

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

" Now, when I have a four-string that I take on the road with me, it's a regular Martin. I bought a decent Martin with a pickup in it, and then I just take off the strings and have four strings on it. "

" 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. "

" One thing about when I came back into Dinosaur that was really cool was that pretty much anybody that J. was working with who had a long-term relationship with J. were people I really liked and that I actually may have already known. "

" Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 enjoy Dinosaur for what it is. It's a unique band that has a unique chemistry. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every show I play is like a little celebration of something in my life that has gone really well. "