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" Just from the beginning, I really liked playing around with tape recorders. And then, when I got into punk rock, I only really liked - the rawer it was, the more I was into it. "

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" 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. "

Lou Barlow

You

Complicated

Reflect

" 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. "

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

" I'll figure something out by writing a song about it. "

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

Lou Barlow

Just

Situation

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

" 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

" 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.' "

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

" 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 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!' "

Lou Barlow

Hear

" Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh. "

Lou Barlow

Simplicity

Core

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it. "

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

Lou Barlow

Nice

Really