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In The Morning I'd Write These Essays, Anything That I'd Feel Like Writing, And In The Afternoon, I'd Spend Time With My Guitar. I Had Decided After Listening To My Last Four Or Five Albums That My Biggest Weakness Musically Was Melody. The Reason I Had Been Singing In A Monotone Over The Chord Patterns In My Songs Was That I Never Practiced Doing Melodies.

I Have No Idea Why A Guy Would Bring A Jar Of Peanut Butter To A Concert.

I Try To Beat Back The Producers And Engineers So They - There's Not An Excess Of Stuff Used To Squeeze My Voice To Make It Artificial. There's A Person In There, And People Will Listen; If They Hear Another Person Speak To Them, They'll Listen Because It's Lonely Out Here.

I Smoked This Joint And Then It Hit Me. I Thought, What You Gotta Do Is Play Your Own Simply Blues.

When Punk Began To Be A Genre, People Were Going To Go Out And Try To Mine It. Some Of The Better Groups, Like The Ramones And The Sex Pistols, Were Very Artificial.