Name	Elliott Smith
Occupation	Singer
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I didn`t have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.

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I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don`t think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers.

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The band`s filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.

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I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things.

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Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don`t think anybody does.

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I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

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There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can`t do by myself you know.

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And I`m not trying to write heavy songs.

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

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It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

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In the event of the band dissolving, any members could be kept to that contract with or without their consent under the same terms.

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I don`t think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.

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Because God only knows why people like what they like and don`t like something else.

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I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

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I can`t think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

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I actually don`t think that I`m gonna sell a lot of records.

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I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It`s an experience.

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I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.

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My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

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I didn`t think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

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I don`t really like New York better than Portland. It`s just a different place.

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It`s a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

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I`m just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

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I didn`t know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

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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.

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It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

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They don`t put any pressure on me to do anything in particular and Dreamworks didn`t either so this was a really easy record to make.

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I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

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I think that record gave me a reputation for being a really dark, depressed person but I think I`m just about as happy as all the other people I know.

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It`s just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don`t have any meaning.

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

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There`s always that argument to make - that you`re in better company historically if people don`t understand what you`re doing.

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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.

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