124 Quotes by Jeff Tweedy

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

We try to honestly reflect what we're like, ... You evolve and change over 10 years, and you try and make the music reflect that.

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. 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.

We never could understand what the problem was with people listening to your music. I thought that was the whole point.

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.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.