39 Quotes by Zach Condon

I’d been living out of a suitcase since I was 17 years old, and it just got to the point where it was ridiculous. Besides, it was really hurting everything I was trying to do in music; to feel so consistently homeless was no way to endure touring and stress.

I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can’t be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

I love the community and the entertainment too much. I’m used to it – it’s what I saw first.

I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else’s perspective – told someone else’s story.

There is a beauty to touring – to be honest, there’s a way that music connects and you really feel the actual reaction of people to the music that you’re making, and I feel like if I didn’t do that I just wouldn’t know, and I don’t think my music would be the same.

I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the point where I was like, “Well, you can’t write an entire album on this instrument.” But maybe I would!

It’s a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better – make it best, so to speak.