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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I look forward to so many things about going to Japan. The shows are early. It's great! They're really early, so it helps make dealing with jetlag a little easier. "

" 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. "

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

" Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me. "

" I always felt weird. I don't feel particularly likeable. "

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

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

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

" It just takes me awhile to get comfortable in any situation. "

" I've been trying to cut down on caffeine because it seems to aggravate my middle-age-onset acne, but I'm too tired to care. I'm growing a beard to hide it. "

" 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'm fully aware, I've gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It's not a really big deal; it's something I can deal with. "

" Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh. "

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

" 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. "

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" I wrote 'Healthy Sick,' from our first LP, when I was 19. I'll happily play it till I'm 91 because it always feels good and truthful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "