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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• Elliott Smith:

  I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

• Elliott Smith:

  There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't u

• Elliott Smith:

  I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is bett

• Elliott Smith:

  I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you i

• Elliott Smith:

  If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

• Elliott Smith:

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

• Elliott Smith:

  And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.

• Elliott Smith:

  I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

• Elliott Smith:

  I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

• Elliott Smith:

  I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.