Alex G

“I'm done with school. I was there because I figured I wanted to make a lot of money or something, but I sucked at discipline. I sucked at doing what you have to do.”

“When I was younger, when I first figured out how to work GarageBand and worked out a system of how to record myself, I was nonstop. I'd get home from school or work and just be nonstop recording because it was just so fun and satisfying.”

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

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

“I remember writing really simple songs on the piano when I was really young. Looking back, I'd play a lot of two-note minor chords and call it the 'bad guy' song and then a bunch of major chords would be the 'good guy' song.”

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

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

“DSU' and the ones prior, the music was concretely my escape from everything else, and on 'Beach Music' onwards, it's still an escape, but there's now this context where it's now my 'craft' for real. It's representing me in a deeper way than I perceived it before.”

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

“I am beyond a control freak - I'm a monster. I say it straight up to my band sometimes, because I'll have them play on some of the songs, and sometimes I'm like, 'Honestly you could play something so amazing and I might not like it just because I didn't do it.'”

“If I'm making a chord progression on guitar, and I like it, but the next day when I play, and it doesn't make me feel anything, I just scratch it, or I'll rework it till I have this thing that's consistently putting me in a spot, you know? It's not a method that I'm even conscious of.”

“I think I'm like most people in that there's a performance I do for everybody in my life.”

“It's not that I don't know about things - but a lot of what I'm doing means one thing to me at one time and means something else to me a different time. And it's hard to tell people that I feel a certain way about a song when in reality it's a whole spectrum of things that the songs can represent.”

“I don't think of myself as weird, but I do get it. I definitely see that sometimes I'll say something and people will be like 'OK,' and then I'd be like, 'Oh, that was a weird thing to say,' you know? But I don't dislike how I am - that's just how I am.”

“I'm not even that good at guitar, so when it sounds like I'm playing a chord in a raw or unconventional way, it's not because I'm like, Oh this needs an unconventional chord.”

“To me, I'm just normal.”

“I don't think I dream more than the average person, but I appreciate them a lot, as everyone does.”

“Everything that I do, and everything that everyone does - you're just gobbling up everything around you. Everyone's selfish - whatever you can take you take, pretty much.”

“I'm always trying to keep myself entertained while making music. Because that's just my only gauge of the quality of it.”

“I just couldn't make myself care about school.”