I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation. Alex Ebert Read Quote
Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That’s sort of the major guideline when you’re writing a song. Alex Ebert Read Quote
The album is a thing that you can hang out with between shows. I think that it’s really nice to give people something they can enjoy in a private situation or walking around, just as the soundtrack of their lives. Alex Ebert Read Quote
It’s not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don’t capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore. Alex Ebert Read Quote
At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone. Alex Ebert Read Quote
I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped around from classical to Western to new age to hyper-cinematic. Alex Ebert Read Quote
From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it’s always fleeting. Alex Ebert Read Quote
For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider ‘living.’ Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn’t relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find ‘living.’ Alex Ebert Read Quote
Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location. Alex Ebert Read Quote
