Lou Barlow

I have to focus and keep things together as much as anyone with a real job... It's just that I know, from…

— Lou Barlow

Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life.

— Lou Barlow

For me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive…

— Lou Barlow

NYC is a wonderland full of passionate music fans. Once I got over being intimidated by rock critics and finicky hipsters, I…

— Lou Barlow

I hear people telling me a lot that the production of that particular record - 'One Part Lullaby' - really influenced them.…

— Lou Barlow

Just from the beginning, I really liked playing around with tape recorders. And then, when I got into punk rock, I only…

— Lou Barlow

I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think…

— Lou Barlow

I remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic.

— Lou Barlow

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.

— Lou Barlow

Now, when I have a four-string that I take on the road with me, it's a regular Martin. I bought a decent…

— Lou Barlow

If you make a strange, eccentric record - like the Velvet Underground's 'White Light/White Heat' - it takes on its own mood…

— Lou Barlow

Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things,…

— Lou Barlow

At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar…

— Lou Barlow

I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.

— Lou Barlow

A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

— Lou Barlow

I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.

— Lou Barlow

Simplicity is at the core of Sebadoh.

— Lou Barlow

I'm realizing I need to be in close proximity to everyone I'm working with because that - I don't know - it…

— Lou Barlow

I'll figure something out by writing a song about it.

— Lou Barlow

My family is the epicenter of my life.

— Lou Barlow

Every show I play is like a little celebration of something in my life that has gone really well.

— Lou Barlow

Look for magic in the daily routine

— Lou Barlow

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:…

— Lou Barlow

That's what I've figured out over the years - the way I write makes people feel uncomfortable.

— Lou Barlow

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

— Lou Barlow