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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It just takes me awhile to get comfortable in any situation. "

" 'One Part Lullaby.' It was our big major-label record. People reference it quite a bit, but it did absolutely nothing. It's like the 'Kids' soundtrack. It did nothing. It didn't start anything for me. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" My voice is not very dynamic. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in. "

" 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. "

" Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'm a huge Zombies fan. "

" 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. "

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