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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most. "

" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me. "

" I have to focus and keep things together as much as anyone with a real job... It's just that I know, from experience, that the more fun I have doing something that the more successful it will be. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm a huge Zombies fan. "

" My voice is not very dynamic. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable. "

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

" I'm fully aware, I've gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It's not a really big deal; it's something I can deal with. "