I've been doing four-track songs by myself since I was like a teenager, where I'd sing in a way that I ... I just didn't think other people would like it, so I didn't play it for them but eventually I got over that, which I'm happy that I did, because it's kind of a drag to be playing a kind of music that you don't really like as much as another kind.
Elliott SmithI see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.
Elliott SmithI watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members
Elliott SmithSo if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.
Elliott Smith