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I'm not ... pumped about being alive. But I don't think about suicide ever. I have a kid. I think that's just an automatic shut-off of that idea. In fact, I just instantly went into the necessities of parenting, and I think it's been very good for grief. Because it's a reality check, I guess. I have very real tasks that need immediate attention all the time.

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I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a few days. It was really fun, and funny t…

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Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it for any functional thing.

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Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do. Music that you want to…

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It's interesting to think about the different forms one place can take.

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I didn't want to do a double album. I just felt like the last two records I made were like that, and a lot of records I was buying were like that, an…

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Death is natural, and it happens early for some people. I acknowledge that, and in the next sentence, reject it, because it just sucks. It hurts. I c…

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I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was... crazy.

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Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb …

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To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses their mind.

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