I always felt weird. I don't feel particularly likeable.

I was cripplingly shy. When I was in high school, my teachers thought I was mentally disabled because I wouldn't be able to say anything or do anything. They thought I didn't speak.

I don't really have friends in general. I never have. I didn't go to college and didn't have friends in high school.

My voice is not very dynamic.

I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it.

Every show I play is like a little celebration of something in my life that has gone really well.

I look forward to so many things about going to Japan. The shows are early. It's great! They're really early, so it helps make dealing with jetlag a little easier.

From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places a large guitar in your lap, it's hard - I'd learned how to play a guitar when I was a kid, but I never really felt like I was in control.

If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low, warm feel to it.

The first songs I ever wrote - my first, like, serious offerings - were all written on ukulele. It's always been a part of the way I write for a really long time.

That's what I've figured out over the years - the way I write makes people feel uncomfortable.

To be doing interviews in 2006 for a band I was kicked out of in 1989 - a band that I never thought I would play for again - in a way, it's weird.

I'm the Folk Implosion's biggest fan.

I wrote 'Healthy Sick,' from our first LP, when I was 19. I'll happily play it till I'm 91 because it always feels good and truthful.

I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me.

I enjoy Dinosaur for what it is. It's a unique band that has a unique chemistry.

J. makes me laugh. He's incredibly dry and has a pretty harsh sense of humor that I enjoy.

I remember being inspired by this band Godflesh, actually. They were a really heavy metal band, really nihilistic.

I've been trying to cut down on caffeine because it seems to aggravate my middle-age-onset acne, but I'm too tired to care. I'm growing a beard to hide it.

I'm a huge Zombies fan.

Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.

To bicker over what could have been is silly.

I wrote a song for my sister's wedding.

I prefer to read into other people's songs what I want to hear in them.