Elliott Smith Quotations

There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs...

I've been doing four-track songs by myself since I was like a teenager, where I'd sing in a way that I ... I just didn't think other people would like it, so I didn't play it for them but eventually I got over that, which I'm happy that I did, because it's kind of a drag to be playing a kind of music that you don't really like as much as another kind.

While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide.

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record

I didnt know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and someone else will look at it and think of all the fun things you can do in New York. I think songs are kinda like that.

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

The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun.