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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything means nothing to me

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

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

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

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

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

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

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

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

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

I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.

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

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

Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles] ... I'm ready.

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.

Tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint

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

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail,

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

What I used to be will pass away and then you'll see
That all I want now is happiness for you and me

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.

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.

Fights problems with bigger problems.

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

Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

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

Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.

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.

If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun.

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

And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

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

i'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow

I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things.

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