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" NYC is a wonderland full of passionate music fans. Once I got over being intimidated by rock critics and finicky hipsters, I realized that NYC was a great place to play. "

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" 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. "

Lou Barlow

Play

Guitar

Young

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

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

" I prefer to read into other people's songs what I want to hear in them. "

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

" 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 love Devo. There's nothing not to like. "

Lou Barlow

Nothing

Love

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness. "

Lou Barlow

Real

Awfulness

" 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. "

" I have really severe tinnitus. "

Lou Barlow

Severe

Really

" 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. "

Lou Barlow

Harmony

Early

" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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 went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing. "

" I've never been good at playing live in front of people. "

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

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