Jeff Tweedy
Jeff Tweedy
Jeffrey Scot "Jeff" Tweedyis an American songwriter, musician, and record producer best known as the leader of the band Wilco...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth25 August 1967
CityBelleville, IL
CountryUnited States of America
aquariums drinkers
I am an American aquarium drinker
song writing want
Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
song writing thinking
I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.
alive ifs dies
You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.
letting-go mean forget
The main thing I learned is that the more I can forget about being embarrassed when I make something, the more it is going to mean something to somebody else. I can't anticipate what it's going to be or how it's going to be perceived, so the quicker I let go of something I make, the better.
writing thinking people
To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main thing I know now that I didn’t know when I was younger — and that is that you have to have a life to write about one. If you’re more worried about having experiences so you can write about them, I think you’re kinda being ridiculous, and I think a lot of young people look at it like that.
ideas way poetic
I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.
want what-you-want
What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.
cutting car people
I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.
bad guess guilty life regardless
I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.
thinking records done
For the most part I stand by all of records. I just always like the one I've done most recently the best and I think that's the whole point.
song writing thinking
Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.
book remember surprise
I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.