A Quote by Elliott Smith
It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.
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We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.
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Whatever we were saying in our music had to represent something and really stand for something. I just wanted to do something with purpose.
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