Top 35 Art Alexakis Quotes

I’m a ‘Power of Now’ kind of guy, always have been. I don’t really hang on to a lot of pictures. I have pictures of my daughters.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I’ve always loved aggressive, hard, noisy, yet melodic bands, and at the same time I’ve always loved ‘Blue’ by Joni Mitchell.

Maybe I’ll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I’d like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It’s a sign of weakness.

When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.

I love Australia! I got a boot thrown at me there.

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

My goal is to make my kids as happy as possible.

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at ‘Santa Monica’ as a thing outside of itself, because it isn’t just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

I lived in Portland for almost 20 years, and that’s where my eldest daughter went to college. I missed the sunshine. I grew up in L.A.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

I don’t talk about my past; people ask me about it. I’ve done things I’m ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I’ve done that I regret, I’ve never done twice. I work really hard at that.

I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they’re not because I write in the first person.

I’m not a politician. I’m not running for office. I can say what I think.

I’m constantly working, even when I’m at home.

If you live in L.A. long enough, you get into having a cool car.

My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring – the 101 is just right. It’s like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

For the most part, I don’t like people who soapbox.

You don’t have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

I do like my sugar at night, but I try to keep it to a minimum.

‘Santa Monica’ was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it’s not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

I think The Police made five great records and then called it a day. They went out on top.

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the ’70s, Father’s Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father’s Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

People have had the idea to do a ’90s alternative tour for a long time. I didn’t come up with that; I was the first guy to basically say it was time.

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don’t have that role model to teach you how to do things.

I think Everclear is a weird combination of a singer-songwriter and a hard-rock band. That’s why some people really dig the band, and some don’t.

I think I write very good songs. But I don’t know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They sound good sung by me, and they especially sound good with my band.

Call me, and I’d do anything for the Democratic Party.

I like older people; I think older people have a lot of flavor.

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It’s fun. I like being creative, and it’s a creative process.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

I saw Cheap Trick play ‘In Color,’ and it was awesome.

I like Nirvana, but I couldn’t say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story.