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" A good song's a good song, and well known songs take on meaning in people's lives. "
Ty Segall
Take
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Song
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" A good record transports you to another place. "
Ty Segall
Good
Place
Record
" My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for the Money' and The Kinks' 'Village Green Preservation Society' - these records that have a story - even if it's not a literal story - because of how they're sequenced and flow. It's like a novel with sound. "
Ty Segall
Story
Money
Society
" I think 'Freedom's Goblin' is a very political title. "
Ty Segall
Think
Freedom
Political
" I grew up in a super suburban place where the mundane middle-class issues were similar to what Ray Davies was singing about. All the topics he was singing about were middle-class woes and humanitarian woes - human-being woes. "
Ty Segall
Place
Where
Up
" I know 150 percent how deeply cynical and negative I can be. I can be very dark and harsh. "
Ty Segall
I Can
Cynical
Know
" I listen to a lot of stuff. I mean, I'm constantly switching up what I'm listening to. "
Ty Segall
Listening
Up
Stuff
" To me, success has already happened. I get to make records and live doing that. Success is that. "
Ty Segall
Me
Success Is
Doing
" Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid. "
Ty Segall
Gonna
Stupid
MTV
" A CCR Headcleaner show will blow your mind. "
Ty Segall
Blow
Mind
Will
" 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. "
Ty Segall
Why
Sides
Music
" With Spotify and all those streaming services, you don't get paid anything. You have to be, like, Madonna or something to actually make a real royalty from that. "
Ty Segall
You
Real
Anything
" 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. "
Ty Segall
You
Relationship
Happy
" I really like to think of each record as its own thing. So, for sure, but I hate the idea of being stuck in anything. Like I want to do a Hawkwind-style record too, or a noise rock record or a hardcore record. Why not, you know? I would just not want to keep heading too far in one direction, without pulling off and going the other way. "
Ty Segall
Think
You
Hate
" 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. "
Ty Segall
You
Good
Learning
" I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records. "
Ty Segall
Time
Man
Duck
" I love the weird overdub style, like 'The Madcap Laughs' by Syd Barrett, where you can tell it's being overdubbed and it's kind of warbly. It creates a different experience. Or the 'White Album,' where you can tell it's overdubbing. But there's something about a band in a room - it's a feeling you can't replicate. There's a feel to the music. "
Ty Segall
Music
Style
Weird
" I listened to oldies radio stations as a kid; lots of Kinks and Beatles and '50s hits. "
Ty Segall
Hits
Radio
Oldies
" 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. "
Ty Segall
Vein
Sabbath
Stuff
" Growing up in Orange County, it was all O.C. punk, L.A. punk. Black Flag, all the SST stuff. "
Ty Segall
Black
Growing Up
Orange
" Usually, I'm over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions. "
Ty Segall
Things
Own
My Own
" 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. "
Ty Segall
Think
Time
Done
" 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. "
Ty Segall
See
People
Looking
" A collaboration, you have to collaborate, meet in the middle, yield to the other collaborator, and that's a wonderful thing. "
Ty Segall
Meet
Collaboration
You
" I love Kool Keith; that guy's the best. "
Ty Segall
Best
Guy
Love
" 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. "
Ty Segall
People
Problems
Brain
" 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. "
Ty Segall
Thinking
Better
More
" Madonna was my favorite when I was a little kid. "
Ty Segall
Little
Kid
Little Kid
" 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. "
Ty Segall
Hip-Hop
Engineering
Know
" 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. "
Ty Segall
Treat
Ideas
Best
" To me, rock n' roll is rock n' roll. I try to think of it as that. To me, Funkadelic and Metallica exist in the same world. "
Ty Segall
Same
Rock
Think