Ty Segall Quotes

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

In a partnership, it is good to have two partners who have complementary means of action, under the assumption that these two partners sufficiently talk to each other to find out what they want to do together

I approach any collaboration I do differently.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

Some actors don't want to, but I prefer to. I like to collaborate. Sometimes you have to keep it to yourself, and people want to do their own thing.

I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

If you want help from partners, that means listening to them every once in a while.

Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying.

Collaborate, don't dictate.

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

It has to be a partnership. I go back to Ted Thompson's opening press conference, and he talked about partnership. We had a hell of a partnership for 12 years.

I'm down to work with anyone as long as it's an organic collaboration.

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

What I love is the openness of collaboration.

When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

What do I look for in a collaborator? Pretty much anyone who asks me to do something.

Naturally, in a band or duo, it's really about compromise which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.

I realized that if I had to work with others, I had to align with their vision.

Collaboration is an important part of the process, and ego is never a part of it.

To be honest, it doesn't matter who is next to me in whatever team.