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" There are very few songs I really hate. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos. "

" All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've gone through. "

" 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 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. "

" I hear people telling me a lot that the production of that particular record - 'One Part Lullaby' - really influenced them. I'm like, 'What? We were dropped from the label after that!' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My voice is not very dynamic. "

" 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 have really severe tinnitus. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear 'Love' by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment, it will bring me to tears. "

" 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. "

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