13 Quotes by Ted Leo

If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

Bands – enough with the crayon face-paint – you’re better than that.

As I’ve grown older I’ve been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it’s Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don’t know that I could even pin it down.

I am always thinking music.

When you make a record and have to go out on tour for it, you have to go out on tour for it. Whether it’s going to be joyful or not, you have to do it.

I’ve dreamed about performing songs, songs that don’t even exist, as a complete song.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

When you’re traveling on a body of songs that you have played for many, many years, for most nights of your life – I’m sure you’ve experienced this yourself – it’s not that every night is not it’s own thing. It is.

I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement.