“It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don...” — Alex Ebert Quote

“It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.”

“For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'”

“The album is a thing that you can hang out with between shows. I think that it's really nice to give people something they can enjoy in a private situation or walking around, just as the soundtrack of their lives.”

“The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.”

“I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.”

“Every fighter has flaws but it is the ones who capitalize on those flaws that become great.”