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… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to. — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue. — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness. — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
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… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other. — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety. — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
