Elliott Smith

“And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.”

“I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things.”

“I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.”

“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.”

“It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.”

“There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.”

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

“Why would you want any other, when you’re a world within a world?”

“I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.”

“I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.”

“It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.”

“There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.”

“I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.”

“I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.”

“Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.”

“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.”

“If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.”