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“I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.”
“I really didn't study any music. I just picked it up real quick.”
“But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.”
“Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.”
“CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.”
“For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.”
“Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.”
“I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.”
“I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.”
“I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.”
“I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.”
“It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.”
“I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.”
“You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.”
“When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.”
“Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.”
“Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?”