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Alex Ebert Biography

Singer-songwriter

Alex Ebert, born on May 12, 1978, is a talented singer-songwriter known for his unique blend of folk, rock, and electronic elements in his music.

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“Home is wherever I'm with you. Home is where I'm alone with you.”

Love Home

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“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.”

Sometimes Eye Audience Communicate Engaged Hyper

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“In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.”

Heart My Heart Rail

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“For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.”

Thinking Powerful Quality Inspire Train Childishness

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“To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist mindstate yet still working towards the fantasy and still being childish. While still having the understanding and capacity that would generally inspire pessimism: some sort of more realist perspective that I think most people classify as adult. Anything like that and anything that's sort of fun.”

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“I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Fun Shapes Having Fun Best Gift

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“My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect.”

Want Sometimes Pain Effects Ego Indication Exhilarating

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“When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.”

Pain Beautiful Alive Emotional Emotional Pain

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“Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.”

Sometimes Pain Beautiful Difficult Healing Involved Beautiful Things Physical Pain Bummer

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“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.”

Ifs Want Needs Feels Writing Feelings Pain Song I've Learned

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“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.”

Want Feels Play Night Song Angry Albums Silver Every Night Repetition Obliged Mantras

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“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.”

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“What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.”

Stills Suffering Social Anxiety Reactions Vulnerable Uncontrollable Social Anxiety

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“I get very heated about anything that is socially unkind.”

Unkind

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“It's so rare that I'll read or even watch an interview. I don't want to, either. I don't want to see other people's comments.”

People Want Watches Interviews Comment

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“The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and powerful intention and feeling will, on its own, slide right out of you - out of your spirit.”

Needs Feelings Spirit Goal Natural Powerful Music Is Intention Hopeful Slides

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“Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.”

Way Kind May Ends Moments Stage Expression Ease Willingness Editors Ecstasy

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“Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.”

Sometimes Jobs Stage Flow Truthful Monitoring

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“I think that when you're open, you're at your most powerful.”

Thinking Powerful Most Powerful

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“I'm the most passionate about pushing the realization that there's the joy of love and kindness and sharing, all of these basic qualities, on people who are suffering from adulthood. By these people, I mean, I really feel bad. I think that in their sadness, they're destroying the world. The way that they're destroying the world manifests itself in all these various causes that you have banding together all over the place.”

People Thinking World Way Feels Mean Together Joy Suffering Causes Quality Kindness Sadness Passionate Various Realization Pushing Destroying Adulthood Love And Kindness Banding Together

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“I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other.”

One Thing Floats

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“I'm really into the basic idea of Kriya Yoga. The breathing that goes on in Kriya. Other than that, it's just communicating with the universe and getting the inspiration for different kinds of breath. Basically, I'm into the movement of breath and the shapes of breath. The different kinds of sequences of breath. I like doing that a lot.”

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“Recording music is not really the healthiest thing for the body.”

Body Music Is Recording Music

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“What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue.”

Whole Issues Pissed Off Monsanto

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“When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.”

Care Difficult Comfort Comfortable Contributing

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“Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.”

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“Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.”

Tools Pens Clumsy

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About the Author

Born: May 12, 1978
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 27

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