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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.

But I Was Also Doing Odd Jobs Around Portland, Like Spreading Gravel And Transplanting Bamboo Trees.

Everybody Gets A Tag. If You Listen To A Velvet Underground Record, You Don't Think, 'godfathers Of Punk.' You Just Think, 'this Sounds Great.' The Tags Are There In Order To Help Try To Sell Something By Giving It A Name That's Going To Stick In Somebody's Memory. But It Doesn't Describe It. So 'depressing' Isn't A Word I Would Use To Describe My Music. But There Is Some Sadness In It -- There Has To Be, So That The Happiness In It Will Matter.

So If Somebody Writes A Song That Appears To Have Some Meaning Then Everybody Thinks That It's A Really Heavy Song.

A Lot Of People Are Kind Of Depressed. I'm Happy Some Of The Time, And Some Of The Time I'm Not.