Alex Ebert

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.

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

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.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.