Alex G

I'm not necessarily a wordsmith.

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I'm always true to my taste.

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I work hard to not talk a mile a minute.

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You know who I love? Donna Tartt.

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I say what I want to say with the music.

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I think I'm a passive control freak.

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To me, I'm just normal.

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I always feel like I'm doing something wrong.

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I never intended for my family to hear my music. I don't know why.

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I just don't feel that I have anything to offer in any realm other than the music.

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I'm confident in Philly. I know where I'm at, and I don't feel the need to escape anything.

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Interviews are just something that I'm not great at.

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I like to give just enough information so someone can relate to a song.

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You have to believe that there is some inherent value in yourself.

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I wouldn't have ever predicted myself going to Hong Kong.

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I just want to follow my own ideas, and I'm uncomfortable doing it any other way.

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I'm always trying to come to terms with the fact that people could stop buying my records and coming to the shows…

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Studios are awesome, but at home, if I have an idea, I can just run over, hit record, and put it down…

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I'm done with school. I was there because I figured I wanted to make a lot of money or something, but I…

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In maybe third grade, I kept asking my parents for piano lessons, and eventually I got them. It turned out I wasn't…

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Being a little kid, I'd sit at whatever instrument, and I always preffered making stuff up as opposed to learning other people's…

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I sort of assume everyone has ulterior motives. People aren't necessarily like that, but I'm a paranoid person.

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I am always thinking of how the part I am playing will contribute to the atmosphere of the song and not how…

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Without fail, every time I've loved a song and looked it up to figure out what it's about, I won't care about…

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From like 15 to 19, all I listened to was Elliott Smith. I started to appreciate the more human aspect of music…

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I try and construct the music in a way that stuff that doesn't make sense on the first listen will make sense…

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I think I just didn't like to practice. It's like work to play someone else's music. But when you make your own…

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I'm not sure that I think about it often, but I know I try and make music that is especially moving to…

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When I was younger - and when I think music moved me the most was when I was younger - I didn't…

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I think there's people who have really concrete things to say, and it's really enlightening to hear what they have to say…

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I always listened to the radio a lot, and I've always tried to capture some of that stuff in my music. But…

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I used to just send the music to my friends and I wouldn't put a name on it, and then they would…

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Yeah, I think good writers have a lot of discipline and I don't have that in me.

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I don't like when songs are distinctly happy or sad.

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Even like, making T-shirts was a thing I had to get used to.

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I write whether or not I'm planning to put it on the album.

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I guess the hope is that people will like me or something.

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I just couldn't make myself care about school.

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My intention is to make something that you can listen to a hundred times.

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I'm always just trying to focus on songs in my free time.

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