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. – Elliott Smith
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. – Elliott Smith
It’s just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don’t have any meaning. – Elliott Smith
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
I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record. – Elliott Smith
I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members. – Elliott Smith
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
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. – Elliott Smith
I don’t think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do. – Elliott Smith
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. – Elliott Smith
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
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
