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

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

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

Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything.

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.

Fights problems with bigger problems.

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.