Alex Ebert Quotes & Sayings

“It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.”

“To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.”

“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 are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.”

“Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him.”