"I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience."
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"It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years."
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"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."
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"I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something."
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"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."
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"I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do."
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"Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Fights problems with bigger problems."
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"I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel."
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"While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide."
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"I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous."
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"I didnt know how many people knew who Ferdinand was."
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"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."
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"Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything."
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"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."
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"I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear."
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"Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating."
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"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."
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