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" When I first started writing songs, I did play with my fingers, and I had these kind of weird strums. There's, like, three or four strumming patterns that seemed kind of unique to me. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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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.' "

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

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

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

" Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness. "

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

" I'm the haphazard engineer of my own music. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" There are very few songs I really hate. "

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

" When you're in a band, it's kind of a big thing to be friends as well. "

" If you make a strange, eccentric record - like the Velvet Underground's 'White Light/White Heat' - it takes on its own mood because it's less about a shrewd marketing plan; it's more about an individual emotion. "

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