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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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" Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life. "

" People in the Midwest, there's a lot of regional pride and a lot more, like, fake positivity - 'That's great - you're awesome!' "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" '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 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 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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'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. "

" At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar class, and I played with ten of my classmates, and we did a little guitar orchestra for a school music. "

" 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. "

" I like all the obnoxious Eagles stuff that just drives people crazy. I love 'Life In The Fast Lane' and 'Hotel California.' "

" My family is the epicenter of my life. "

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

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