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

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

" 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. "

" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's kind of crazy how music helped me overcome the anxieties that I have. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into. "

" Within Istanbul, there's a ton of people who are totally hip - like, the hippest people you could ever meet. "

" 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. "

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

" Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas. "

" 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. "

" When you're in a band, it's kind of a big thing to be friends as well. "