"American Beauty"

"i'm kind of a sucker for passing chords, such as when you play a progression like g, d with an f# in the bass, and f. there's a half-step, descending melody in those types of sequences that i love. the beatles did that a lot. and that's what i really like about traditional music. there are ways in which the chords connect to each other--where certain notes only move a little bit while the main notes move a lot. anything that has an ascending or descending half-step thing in it always ropes me in."

Elliott Smith