About King Tuff: King Tuff is a recording artist on Sub Pop Records and Burger Records.
I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself tha...
My best moments are when I write songs out of nowhere.
I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan.
Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box.
I have a 15-passenger van, which is not fun to drive in L.A. ever.
I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.
You do anything long enough, and somebody will end up paying attention to it.
I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it.
Both labels are super awesome, with super awesome people who want to get stuff done. The biggest difference is that Sub Pop is already established, but working with Burger seems like we're part of something. They're growing, and I'm growing with them...
I played with the Lust-Cats once in Denver. I've seen Happy Jawbone a bunch of times, but I can't remember if I played those shows or not.
Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal.
My friends always had bands, and we would play together.
It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.
I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.
I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain.
I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that.
I loved living with my parents - that's probably why I did it for so long. But it was almost too easy to live there. I had to force myself to get out, had to challenge myself. I had to start a new chapter.
I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually happy that I never took lessons as a kid. Now, I'd like to take lessons to kind of go deeper. But I think sometimes lessons can steal a person's personal...
I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I d...
My friends ask me what it's like moving from Vermont to L.A., but no matter where I am, I pretty much just end up sitting in coffee shops, thinking about songs.
