If there are people who treat me wrong, I either talk to them about it, or I don't talk to them anymore. It's been the most thoughtful and considerate thing I could do for myself and other people. I am going to try to do that forever.

Four months after we released 'I Don't Want to Be Funny Anymore,' the album came out on EggHunt. Three months after that, we officially signed with Matador. That's not a very long time: half a year between the first flood and the final signing.

I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.

There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.

'Night Shift' is the only breakup song I've ever written.

Usually, I'll just be walking from my house to somewhere else, and melodies and words will start coming up, and I'll have to run home to write it all down.

It just takes me awhile to get comfortable in any situation.

I'm realizing I need to be in close proximity to everyone I'm working with because that - I don't know - it keeps me engaged.

Sebadoh were always kind of the un-band. We never really lived in the same town.

Worry is a big part of my life. I definitely worry a lot.

I'll figure something out by writing a song about it.

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've gone through.

Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first.

I think musicians naturally gravitate toward music that sounds real.

I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be.

I have really severe tinnitus.

'Brace the Wave' is an acoustic-electric record recorded with electricity on analog-digital and digitally-analog equipment.

I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos.

I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.

It's weird to say, but Sebadoh is kind of Dinosaur Jr. Jr. My two bandmates in the early Sebadoh era, Jason Lowenstein and Jeff Gaffney, were huge Dinosaur fans. They were very influenced by Dinosaur.

After discovering the Ramones, I discovered really crude ways to multi-track by taking another cassette recorder and plugging that into the eight-track, playing it back, so that as I was recording with the mic in my guitar, I could have another cassette player I had recorded on feeding into the recording.

I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand.

A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.