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The band’s filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

People can be chaos but it’s hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It’s hard.

I didnt know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

Tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

I’m just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.

Why would you want any other, when you’re a world within a world?

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

I didn’t think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don’t think anybody does.

I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It’s an experience.

It’s just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don’t have any meaning.

It’s a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it’s a really heavy song.

Certain songs just feel a way that’s hard to put into words and it’s not happy and it’s also not really sad but I couldn’t say what it is.

I can’t think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

It’s hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It’s much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

You can’t get better at things you never play.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

I don’t really like New York better than Portland. It’s just a different place.

You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and someone else will look at it and think of all the fun things you can do in New York. I think songs are kinda like that.

I’m happy some of the time, and some of the time I’m not. But like when I see a movie, for example, that I really like, that moves me or whatever, it’s usually happy and sad at the same time.

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I’m happy some of the time, and some of the time I’m not.

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail. Dying is another way...

There’s lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs...

I see you’re leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn’t lead to anything.

I want to keep making records as long as I can and that’s the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.

I actually don’t think that I’m gonna sell a lot of records.

I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Somewhere where people aren’t so mad would be nice, but I don’t know if there is anywhere like that.

There’s always that argument to make – that you’re in better company historically if people don’t understand what you’re doing.

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

I’m the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it’d be hard for them to be convincing.

If you play acoustic guitar you’re the depressed, sensitive guy.

The devil’s script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

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