Alex Ebert
Alex Ebert
Alexander Michael Tahquitz "Alex" Ebertis an American singer-songwriter and composer. He is best known for being the lead singer and songwriter for the American bands Ima Robot and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. On January 12, 2014, Ebert won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for his musical score to the film All Is Lost...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth12 May 1978
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.
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.
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.
It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.
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.
Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.
Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.
For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.
Sometimes I'm really communicating with the audience and I'm hyper-engaged. Other times my eyes are closed and I just let it be what it is.
I think the most important thing to remember is that pain passes. And artistically, the pain is going to pass. It's what you want to express out of the pain as opposed to indulging in the agony-and-pain mantra of songwriting that became such a hit in the '90s and still, all the way up to now.
I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.
The main thing that I've learned, artistically, is that if I'm in pain and feeling the budding of anger - if I absolutely feel like I need to write a song about it, I'll either need to transform that anger into something positive, or I'll just need to throw the song away. Because eventually, I'm going to want to transcend that pain and that anger.