If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
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.
I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.
I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.
Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.
Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.
I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.
There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
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.
My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.
The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.
And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.
There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.
I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers.
I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
