I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in
Elliott SmithWhile his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide.
Elliott SmithStatic in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything.
Elliott SmithEverybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.
Elliott Smith