“Yeah, I Know I Know I Know is weird. I only write songs generally when I'm by myself; I'm not the type of person that jams out on my guitar if anyone's in the house or hanging around. When we had lots of time off a bunch of my friends came down from Calgary and I didn't do anything. I basically just watched television and hung out with my friends. And then there was a weekend when I was all alone and I wrote "Where Does The Good Go," "Take Me Anywhere," and "I Know I Know I Know" back to back. And with "I Know I Know I Know," I thought that the bridge part - the "stick your hands in" - I thought it kinda sounded like a cheesy ballad. There was moments where I thought I sounded like Celine Dion or somebody like that, because it seemed so ballad-y and straight ahead pop. But when we were working on it, everybody wanted to keep it really quiet and it was probably like four or five BPMs slower than it is now, and it was more of a quiet song. And it was literally the third to last day we were in preproduction when Sara suggested we try a different drum beat, and everyone was like, "No, don't put in a drum beat!" But Sara really wanted to try something and so she actually just said hit that and bring the snare in on the second verse, and when we recorded the drums we did it in this really tiny room, and we made [drummer] Rob do them all separately. So we recorded the actual toms, snare, and kick, and then we recorded the cymbals afterward separately and just tried to make it sound really tight and kinda '80s. And of course, there's the keyboard line, which is just my favorite thing in the whole world, and that was Matt Sharp's contribution. We had become friends with him after he covered a song off of If It Was You, and we were just so excited to be friends with him and have him come down play with us because we're just huge fans of Weezer and The Rentals and his solo stuff is amazing. So that's a favorite of mine, I really like that song and it makes me sad when I play it, but I think it's a good song. I don't know why it makes me sad, there's just something about the song. I was really happy and was in a good relationship and feeling really strong and stable when I wrote this record, but I was sort of filtering old feelings and old stuff from past relationships. And then I spent a lot of times sort of like being a spectator to Sara's break up, and my mom had just gotten into a new relationship, and just sort of felt like, you don't even know what you have and then it's gone. At the time, I was sorta feeling like, umm - I know I've been dumped before and then every relationship you see around you, you just want to be angry at them because you're like, "Respect each other, love each other, don't lose it, it's so great what you have!" So that song was like my reminder that you have to be good to one another.” - Tegan in 2005