There's the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then there's, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, they're not really gonna make you happy. Ty Segall More Quotes by Ty Segall More Quotes From Ty Segall My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for the Money' and The Kinks' 'Village Green Preservation Society' - these records that have a story - even if it's not a literal story - because of how they're sequenced and flow. It's like a novel with sound. Ty Segall village green society money I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records. Ty Segall amazing man black time Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid. Ty Segall show gonna fake stupid I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that. Ty Segall best myself me song I've always had problems with my brain, so a lot of the songs are about issues I have with paranoia or freak-outs. 'When My Head Explodes' is about being on stage, having people look at you and expecting you to perform, then literally your head explodes. Ty Segall look you brain people Usually, I'm over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions. Ty Segall actions own things my-own I try to ignore the Internet. It's an evil, evil place. Ty Segall place ignore internet evil People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And it's cool to check up on your friends and see what's going on in the world, but it's not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet. Ty Segall day cool people world I'm just a total nerd, in all honesty. I'm a massive, insane record fan - that's how I got into playing music. That's why I wanted to make an album - I'm obsessed with how sides flow. Ty Segall how honesty music flow I love the weird overdub style, like 'The Madcap Laughs' by Syd Barrett, where you can tell it's being overdubbed and it's kind of warbly. It creates a different experience. Or the 'White Album,' where you can tell it's overdubbing. But there's something about a band in a room - it's a feeling you can't replicate. There's a feel to the music. Ty Segall you experience music love I grew up in a super suburban place where the mundane middle-class issues were similar to what Ray Davies was singing about. All the topics he was singing about were middle-class woes and humanitarian woes - human-being woes. Ty Segall about place where singing Growing up in Orange County, it was all O.C. punk, L.A. punk. Black Flag, all the SST stuff. Ty Segall flag orange growing-up black I know 150 percent how deeply cynical and negative I can be. I can be very dark and harsh. Ty Segall know i-can dark negative People are embarrassed by disco, but I love it. Ty Segall disco embarrassed love people I think 'Freedom's Goblin' is a very political title. Ty Segall i-think think freedom political Each album I do, I try to have at least a slight rule, whether it's the band has to get together and record live, or all guitars, all fuzz on, all the time. It's varying and slight, but yes, I like having rules. Ty Segall live get-together together time No one deserves anything more than anybody else. Because of that fact, you treat everyone the exact same way as best as you can. Same with musical ideas. My ideas aren't better than anybody else's. Ty Segall treat best you ideas
