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

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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.

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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.

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Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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