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• I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.
• I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues…
• Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail,
• You can't get better at things you never play.
• Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This…
• I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at…
• I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
• I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.
• I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.
• But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
• I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.
• They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

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