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I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs.
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I would only tell a story if I was being mercilessly heckled. That's the only time I would talk to the audience.
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When they're listening to your music all the time, you become part of their life, and some people get obsessed.
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I think when people hear your music, sometimes they get deeply attached to it and think they know something about you, that you're kindred spirits or something.
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I wanted 'Imitations' to be a fully realized record from start to finish, with a cohesive sound and a sequence that took you from one song to the other, just like I would with a record of original stuff.
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I was never super comfortable playing music in front of people anyway. Now I enjoy it, but it wasn't the easiest thing to get past.
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Me and Kurt Cobain were both listening to a bunch of Lead Belly and diggin' it. We thought, 'Let's do an EP of all Lead Belly songs.' We did a couple, and both of us were like, 'Nah, this is a bad concept.' We set it aside.
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Usually I get asked to do stuff that's cool, and if I ever can't do something, it's usually, because of logistics, I don't have the time for it. Rarely do I get ask to do something that I'd rather not do. I usually do it if I feel that it's something I can do.
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I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.
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Yeah, well, I guess Andy Williams would be considered by some to be schmaltzy, but to me, he's one of the greatest singers of all time. Just absolutely amazing. And if anyone doesn't believe me, just YouTube him. He's just one of a kind.
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I enjoy my own songs, but I can never love them in the way that I can love someone else's song.
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One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell.
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The Warriors team with Baron Davis, Matt Barnes, Stephen Jackson - that was an incredible team.
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I've always been haunted by the devastating voice and beautiful songs of Tim Hardin. I can't imagine anyone hearing him and not feeling the same.
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It was really difficult to sing; nobody showed me how to do it. I remember early Screaming Trees shows in the '80s when I'd walk away with a pounding headache from trying to sing way out of my range.
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I grew up in a small, rural community, where my extended family were mountain-folk type people, and some were very religious.
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The Trees was four complete nuts. We didn't have a damn thing in common except insanity. So we fought a lot. And we had two brothers - who fought like brothers.
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I like Jamal Crawford. He's from Seattle, went to high school there, lived up there. He's fantastic.
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When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.
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I don't think I've ever gotten to the point where I sent out Christmas cards! But if I did, they would have to feature my pets, that's for sure.
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When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, my parents and their friends would play the records of Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Perry Como, music with string arrangements and men singing songs that sounded sad whether they were or not.
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It took me quite a while to find my natural voice. I'm glad I stuck around long enough to see that happen.
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Have I tried a black pudding? I'll eat anything - I'm not finicky - but that's not to say it takes any courage to eat black puddings because I find them delicious.
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I had a lot of jobs when I was younger. Where I grew up, there was a lot of agricultural jobs, so I worked on a lot of farms. I worked in the pea fields, harvesting peas.
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