Elliott Smith People Quotations

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

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

I didnt know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.

I think that record gave me a reputation for being a really dark, depressed person but I think I'm just about as happy as all the other people I know.

I'm comfortable apart,It's all written on my chartThat I take what's given to meMost cooperatively.I do what people sayAnd lie in bed all dayAbsolutely horrified,I hope you're satisfied.

I'm comfortable apart, It's all written on my chart That I take what's given to me Most cooperatively. I do what people say And lie in bed all day Absolutely horrified, I hope you're satisfied.

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

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

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television,