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"I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words."
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"Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'."

"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."

"I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening."

"I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go."
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"I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster."
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"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another."

"We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for."

"It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar."

"We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have."

"One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic."

"I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it."

"I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends."
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