Wayne's quote from Staring At Sound:

"I just sat there and strummed those chords and sang a verse with that melody in exactly the amount of time it took to play it. We were at the beginning stages of Transmissions, and it was so rich with all this new stuff that we were able to do with my simple songwriting and Ronald and Steven's crazy playing that I could see a good arrangement happening, even though it's really not that different from a million other songs I'd written . . . I guess the guy who blows his nose was supposed to be about blow, the girl who dyes her hair orange is supposed to be some sort of take on the alternative movement, and the Vaseline that the girl puts on toast is really meant as some sexual thing. But I never heard about that sort of thing in Oklahoma. It's really not; it's really all pretty normal until the slight twist on things in the last line. One couplet in each of those verses and the whole thing goes to hell."

Michael's quote from Staring At Sound:

"It was just, 'That's a weird, silly song, but it isn't hard to listen to.'"

"She Don't Use Jelly" was the Lips' breakthrough hit, coming on its third issue as a radio single, in December 1994. It helped move over 300,000 copies of Transmissions From The Satellite Heart and landed them appearances on The Jon Stewart Show, The Late Show With David Letterman, MTV Spring Break, and Beverly Hills 90210.

Wayne came up with the main structure of "Jelly," but Steven added the famous slide guitar and drum parts.