“I wrote about being really jealous, I'm talking intense jealousy, jealousy that I had never felt before. The thing that I loved about the chorus in that song is that 'I can't even work' it's like I'm exasperated with myself. I was like disabled by it. I was jealous of what I didn't have, what I used to have, what I wanted to have, and at that particular time I was sort of half-dating someone who was in a relationship, so it was an affair. It was a weird triangle of people and then my ex-girlfriend started dating this guy and then I felt worse, and then he felt jealous, and it was just like 'fuck!' and I was just consumed.” - Sara in 2004

“I heard that song the first time around Christmas of 2003 and I was like, whoa, this is really different. The keyboard sound is this air organ she found on the street walking home from the bar drunk one night, and it was this tiny plastic air organ and she ended up using it on So Jealous and We Didn't Do It. She wrote those two songs pretty close together and when she sent those songs down at Christmas I was really freaked out, like, this is really weird. It actually made me just feel really insecure and I felt competitive and wanted to write something cool as well. But I love that song and I love that idea that she's writing about, missing the West and missing home and being jealous - I think that's obviously an emotion every single person deals with and I think it's a really good universal theme for our band and our record and I thought it was great.” - Tegan in 2005

“‘I want the ocean right now’ was a tantrum I would throw when my life wasn’t working out as I hoped. It meant that I wanted to go home, back out west, back to my old life. It was a threat and a challenge, to myself but also to anyone in striking distance.” - Sara in the So Jealous X book