Jeremy Enigk quotes:

Life is a musical influence in my experience. But as far as actual music and actual bands, uh, I'll just look at my little collection here. Let's see. Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, U2, The Talking Heads, Prince and the Revolution, Michael Jackson's Thriller was a huge one.

Believe in all the good things you keep inside There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.

I don't listen to my own stuff unless I've been drinking a lot.

Almost everything I do, especially later on, is really very scripted. And I do it over and over again until it's perfect.

I have an aversion to conformity.

Even when I am forced to conform - we all are on many levels - that line is definitive. It says exactly what it means: Be an individual, you know? Be yourself.

There are bands now, and for years, that called themselves emo. I never followed that stuff.

I don't have a label, I don't have a manager, I'm doing everything myself.

Trying to be creative, yet having to deal with the day to day - I mean, there is a lot of stuff to deal with. Like sitting at the computer and sending emails.