Top 29 Quotes by Elliott Smith

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

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

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.

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.

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

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

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.

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.