Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.

I'm angry that George Bush got to be in the White House, and I'm angry that [Al] Gore wasn't able to be a better candidate after eight years of a great economy and being an incumbent.