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I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot.
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Cigarettes are the worst thing in the world for you.
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I've got an amazing family. My wife is really smart. She's guided me the whole way. With children, you see them grow up, so it's like you're forever young. They are totally innocent and so unjaded. Watching them grow up makes you go through it again yourself.
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I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.
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I think that I identify with Philadelphia for a lot of reasons. Without even thinking about it, I called myself 'Philly's Constant Hitmaker' when I first got a MySpace, before I had any real hits. It was kind of just a funny slogan, basically lifted from the Rolling Stones' first album, 'England's Newest Hit Makers.'
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I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.
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'Smoke Ring' was a downer, then 'Wakin' was an upturn.
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I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.
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If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.
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Even when I haven't played in a while, I can sit down and start with a chord, and just drop into it. It's like this tunnel I go into. The zone is where I want to live.
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Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through and bands don't usually skip on tour. There are lots of music resources, but it's not too over the top.
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That's one of my favorite Matador records: Cat Power, 'You Are Free.'
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I had a really fun time working with the HARRYS guys and their whole crew.
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We'll play somewhere like London, playing to 2,000 people easy, and every time you play with more people, you think, 'You're a rock star,' and it makes you laugh. I guess I am, but I'm also, you know, not.
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I benefit from a change of scenery; it's always inspiring.
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I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have.
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That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.
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I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all.
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I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.
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If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.
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I'm always working on music.
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I like a well-rounded life. All of this work is kind of useless if you don't have something good to come home to.
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