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" You do anything long enough, and somebody will end up paying attention to it. "
King Tuff
Will
Attention
Long
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" I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself. "
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" I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells. "
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" I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually happy that I never took lessons as a kid. Now, I'd like to take lessons to kind of go deeper. But I think sometimes lessons can steal a person's personality away, because they're trying to do things so technically. "
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" I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain. "
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" I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music. "
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" I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever. "
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" I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice. "
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" I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan. "
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Listening
" I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention span. "
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" It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth. "
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" I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know? "
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" My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out. "
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Conformity
Me
" I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller. "
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Blues
Top
" My friends ask me what it's like moving from Vermont to L.A., but no matter where I am, I pretty much just end up sitting in coffee shops, thinking about songs. "
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Moving
" I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there. "
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" I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like. "
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" I loved living with my parents - that's probably why I did it for so long. But it was almost too easy to live there. I had to force myself to get out, had to challenge myself. I had to start a new chapter. "
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Challenge
Live
Start
" You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive. "
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Alive
Dive
Down
" Vermont will always be my home in my heart, but I really love L.A. "
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Always
Heart
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" I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious. "
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" It involved a lot of trust, but I love Bobby Harlow, and I loved the albums that he made. "
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