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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. "

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" 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. "

Lou Barlow

Fun

Focus

Experience

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Lou Barlow

Just

I Can

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego, by playing this loud rock music. "

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

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

" Worry is a big part of my life. I definitely worry a lot. "

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

Lou Barlow

Nice

Really

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

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

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

" 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. "

" From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places a large guitar in your lap, it's hard - I'd learned how to play a guitar when I was a kid, but I never really felt like I was in control. "