Art Alexakis

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

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

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup. ”

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

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

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or. ”

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'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored. ”

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. ”