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"Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult."
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"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."

"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."

"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."

"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."

"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."

"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."

"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."
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"And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice."

"But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it."

"I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else."

"I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do."

"I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years."

"Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record."

"There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do."
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