“There's a tendency for young musicians - I certainly was guilty of thi...” — Jack Conte Quote

There's a tendency for young musicians - I certainly was guilty of this - of wanting to know what they sound like, before making their first record, before releasing things. But I think that's the wrong order of operations. You only find out what you sound like, when you have five records under your belt.

I love the idea of creators having leverage and control.

I wanted a button on my personal website, on jackconte.com, that said please give me money whenever I make a video if you want to help me keep making videos. Seconds after I thought of that, I thought: 'Well, gee, that's something a lot of my friends would like, too.'

Taking occasional risks, I'm a strong proponent of that.

You don't become a world champion by training like a world champion - after you win a belt. If you want to become a world champion, long before that you've got to walk like one, talk like one, train like one, carry yourself like one. And that means training as hard as you can for every fight.

I want that belt. I'm on my way, taking it one fight at a time, but I'm coming after it.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.

The Kuiper belt region, which I call the third zone because it lies beyond the rocky terrestrial planets and beyond the giant planets, is a bizarre frontier.