The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Coll…

- Alex Chilton

Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years befor…

- Alex Chilton

Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bo…

- Alex Chilton

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it see…

- Alex Chilton

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not…

- Alex Chilton

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. W…

- Alex Chilton

Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunde…

- Alex Chilton

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works…

- Alex Chilton

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

- Alex Chilton