Alex G

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

“It's easy to say all sorts of stuff when you have no intention of following through on anything.”

“When I'm done with something I know it's done, but whether or not I think it's good changes 100% day-to-day.”

“I always feel like I'm doing something wrong.”

“I have like, a feeling and I make music to match this thing, this feeling. It's extreme. It's like, not being able to deal with the way reality is.”

“It's not so much the interview itself that I'm uncomfortable with, but the effect that interviews have on people who listen to the music. I don't think they serve the purpose of the music at all, which is to be something that someone can have a personal attachment with. I think an interview sort of undermines that a little bit.”

“I guess it's a romanticised, 'cool' thing to be mysterious, so I'm down for that.”

“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 thing, the work I was putting forth seemed a little more productive, and made me feel more satisfied. It was always pretty easy. It was fun.”

“I always listened to the radio a lot, and I've always tried to capture some of that stuff in my music. But it always comes across differently. I have never been able to get it right, I guess because of the limited means I had.”

“There's something to be said about making music that has just some pure element that can communicate with everyone. I like when stuff is so earnest, because... how do I explain it? The person making the music then becomes a part of the art.”

“All of my songs are trial-and-error until each part is successfully hitting me in the way that I can feel. But I don't have some type of meter that I can put on my brain to see if it's hitting me properly; it's a loose, intuitive process.”

“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 it anymore.”

“Even if I wasn't doing music as a career, I'd probably still get a lot out of it and want to make it all the time. So it's sort of hijacked any other path that I was on, you know, because I've just spent all my free time doing music instead of pursuing stuff that would actually help me.”

“I completely understand why I am considered a singer-songwriter and I have no problem with any of that. It's just when I'm thinking of myself making music, I think of myself more as a producer.”

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

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

“I just want to listen to a song that whatever I'm feeling at the moment, I can amplify that.”

“I don't know much about any religions, but from talking to people who are religious, loving yourself because God made you... there's a purpose for you to be here. You deserve love innately because of that. It's not a matter of what you did or who you are, it's just because you're a person, you deserve to be loved.”

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

“I'm always true to my taste.”