Words matter. These are the best Ty Segall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Madonna was my favorite when I was a little kid.
I try to ignore the Internet. It’s an evil, evil place.
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.
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.
A good song’s a good song, and well known songs take on meaning in people’s lives.
The ‘Manipulator’ record was really fun to do. It was far less heavy and draining, in an emotional way. It was just like making a rock record. It was just really fun.
I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don’t know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don’t have those for engineering or making beats. I don’t know how to use a sampler well. I don’t know how to use any of these things.
A good record transports you to another place.
Usually, I’m over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions.
I love Kool Keith; that guy’s the best.
Growing up in Orange County, it was all O.C. punk, L.A. punk. Black Flag, all the SST stuff.
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.
I listen to a lot of stuff. I mean, I’m constantly switching up what I’m listening to.
I know 150 percent how deeply cynical and negative I can be. I can be very dark and harsh.
A CCR Headcleaner show will blow your mind.
My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like – strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.
But I think it’s hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it’s good I’m learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.
A collaboration, you have to collaborate, meet in the middle, yield to the other collaborator, and that’s a wonderful thing.
People are embarrassed by disco, but I love it.
When I sit down and try to write lyrics first – I’ve definitely done that in the past – but most of the time, they come off as a put-on, or less genuine than you would think. I’m the kind of guy that if I overthink a sentiment or I overthink a statement, it’s weird.
I like thrash metal and black metal, stuff like that.
Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid.
The idea of ‘Freedom’s Goblin,’ to me, leads to a wild conversation. I would hope that father and son, driving home from the record store, could have a conversation about what that title means. Because to me, it’s the duality of being free: the evil and the good, and how it’s a constant paradox.
A lot of bands are influenced by other bands, and that informs their songwriting for sure. It definitely informs my songwriting, too. But it’s more about not thinking about it, and if it comes out of you, it’s better.
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.
To me, success has already happened. I get to make records and live doing that. Success is that.
I really like proto-metal, so stuff like Pentagram is really great, and that’s more in the vein of Sabbath and stuff like that.
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.
I think ‘Freedom’s Goblin’ is a very political title.
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.
