It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.
Elliott SmithPeople think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.
Elliott SmithPeople can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.
Elliott SmithI'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.
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