If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

You can't get better at things you never play.

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.