124 Quotes by Jeff Tweedy

I still have a lot of faith that there’s very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.

I honestly don’t remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don’t remember anything being shocking to me.

When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren’t healthy.

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I’ve written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.

If there’s one thing that’s 100 percent true about every intoxicated person in world history, it’s that you shouldn’t believe them when they say they love you. The only difference between you and that slice of cold pizza back at their apartment is that they haven’t met the pizza yet.

Walking tends to unravel the knots in my thinking, and I’ll always recommend a leisurely stroll or even a brisk one around the block to alleviate almost any kind of mental stress.

I always think I don’t have any songs, I don’t have anything I’m working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I’m thinking about. It’s just kind of second nature.

It seems to me that the only wrong thing I could do with whatever gifts I’ve been given as a musician or an artist would be to let curiosity die.

I don’t think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody’s going to want to work on some of them.