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"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."
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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."

"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."

"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."

"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
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"I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying."

"But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees."

"It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin."

"I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in."
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