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
life music obsessed relationship rock seeing surrounds understand ways
I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.
dismal hope level maintained music
Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
american-musician certain failure life notion somehow
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
confront horrible lyrics
Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.
tortured
I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
few glenn songs surprise
Glenn will probably come out and do a few songs with me, but I kind of like to keep it a surprise if it is going to happen.
chords convincing forget less lyrics mental obviously remember spend spent time written
You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.
good life
I don't think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn't good.
american-musician anyone happen information noticing record since stream
We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.
listening people problem understand
We never could understand what the problem was with people listening to your music. I thought that was the whole point.
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.
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.
want what-you-want
What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.
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.