Elliott Smith Quotes

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

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

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

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

I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.

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.

I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

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.

Why would you want any other, when you’re a world within a world?