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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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

" Just from the beginning, I really liked playing around with tape recorders. And then, when I got into punk rock, I only really liked - the rawer it was, the more I was into it. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My voice is not very dynamic. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical. "

" 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. "

" I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most. "

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

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

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