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I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought 'Why are you bitter? You can't just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called 'generic' music when you're not doing anything to challenge that.'

I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.

I don't see the point in being bitter.

The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.

I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.

I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.