I guess that 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

 

I guess that 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.


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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. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

Alex Chilton

I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.

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 before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.

Alex Chilton

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. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

Alex Chilton

When the Box Tops first started out, I couldn't play guitar much at all. Only after we had our first hit records did I start playing.

Alex Chilton