Quotes by Ty Segall

People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And its cool to check up on your friends and see whats going on in the world, but its not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet.

But I think its hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But its good Im learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

Im jamming Black Sabbath Vol. 4 all the time. Zappas Cruising With Ruben & The Jets. A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents Duck Stab is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. Im pretty schizophrenic with records.

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.

Theres the conforming 9-to-5-lifestyle thing. Then theres, like, settling down, trying to find a balance in a relationship sense, or having a dog and having a house. All these things, like, theyre not really gonna make you happy.

My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things Parachute and S.F. Sorrow and The Mothers of Inventions Were Only in It for the Money and The Kinks Village Green Preservation Society - these records that have a story - even if its not a literal story - because of how theyre sequenced and flow. Its like a novel with sound.