Alex Ebert

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…

— Alex Ebert

Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a…

— Alex Ebert

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment…

— Alex Ebert

I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the…

— Alex Ebert

I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope…

— Alex Ebert

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

— Alex Ebert

The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every…

— Alex Ebert

What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue.

— Alex Ebert

For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.

— Alex Ebert

The album is a thing that you can hang out with between shows. I think that it's really nice to give people…

— Alex Ebert

I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other.

— Alex Ebert

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social…

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For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew…

— Alex Ebert

I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be…

— Alex Ebert

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

— Alex Ebert

Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change…

— Alex Ebert

It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them…

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Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little…

— Alex Ebert

I'm really into the basic idea of Kriya Yoga. The breathing that goes on in Kriya. Other than that, it's just communicating…

— Alex Ebert

To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist…

— Alex Ebert

Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

— Alex Ebert

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

— Alex Ebert

There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.

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Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or…

— Alex Ebert

I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them…

— Alex Ebert