Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.
- Elliott Smith Quote

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.
- Elliott Smith Quote

I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.
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I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.
- Elliott Smith Quote

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.
- Elliott Smith Quote

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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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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I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things.
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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.
- Elliott Smith Quote

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?
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I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.
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It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.
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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.
- Elliott Smith Quote

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.
- Elliott Smith Quote

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.
- Elliott Smith Quote

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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There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
- Elliott Smith Quote