If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.
I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.
I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.
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.
I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.
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.
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.
