Zitat des Tages von Alex Ebert:
It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.
At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.
To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.
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.
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.
In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.
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.
I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid.
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.
