Ted Leo

Some people never need to let up at all.

— Ted Leo

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

— Ted Leo

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

— Ted Leo

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

— Ted Leo

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm…

— Ted Leo

I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle…

— Ted Leo

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

— Ted Leo

When you make a record and have to go out on tour for it, you have to go out on tour for…

— Ted Leo

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

— Ted Leo

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

— Ted Leo

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing.…

— Ted Leo

I'm even old-school Instagram. I'm here for your "What did you have to eat today?" I'm fine with that.

— Ted Leo

Most of the time I wind up with a sleepily mumbled melodic line, sometimes with words, sometimes not. But then with my…

— Ted Leo

There's a definite machinery behind everything that a band does, and sometimes it's hard to figure out how far to go in…

— Ted Leo

When you're traveling on a body of songs that you have played for many, many years, for most nights of your life…

— Ted Leo

Though I know for a fact that some of my fans would be happy for me to do anything that's going to…

— Ted Leo

If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from…

— Ted Leo

I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe. I'm even…

— Ted Leo

I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's…

— Ted Leo

Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of…

— Ted Leo

It's almost weirder sometimes when you don't have a full life experience with someone's ups and downs, knowing what they've been through.…

— Ted Leo

There's a lot of discussion about whether you should be a good live band or a good studio band. I think you…

— Ted Leo

There are more people that are WORTH playing for and making records for than the fickle and casual - they just don't…

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The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent…

— Ted Leo

My "degree" has done nothing for me at all. But that I've learned - the critical thought processes I've tried to keep…

— Ted Leo

Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me,…

— Ted Leo

Despite the fact that I trust the people at major labels who tell me that they want to offer me a home…

— Ted Leo

The early 2000s for me were a very emotional time, politically. I'd been through Reagan and been through first Bush and Clinton,…

— Ted Leo

I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball.

— Ted Leo

I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe.

— Ted Leo

The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent…

— Ted Leo

I think it's become such a part of younger people's daily life to have the instant access to each other that it…

— Ted Leo

When I get into the moment of actually feeling like I want to write, to finish something, I do what I've always…

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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…

— Ted Leo

I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones…

— Ted Leo

When I started playing solo 10 years ago, I had some ham-fisted idea about trying to subvert the "singer-songwriter" tag/genre, and I…

— Ted Leo