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" 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. "

Lou Barlow

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

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

Lou Barlow

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" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

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

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

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

Lou Barlow

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

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

" I really don't have a method. I gravitate towards the organic/acoustic, but I still often complete songs musically before attempting to find the lyric. "

" 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 put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by. "

" People in the Midwest, there's a lot of regional pride and a lot more, like, fake positivity - 'That's great - you're awesome!' "

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

" There are very few songs I really hate. "

" I've managed to alienate most of what would be considered the core audience that I'm supposed to have had. "

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

" To bicker over what could have been is silly. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

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" I'm a huge Zombies fan. "