Top 29 Quotes by Elliott Smith

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

I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

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.

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

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

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.

I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.

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.