Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product. — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
You know, you struggle and cry and moan and thrash around and beat your head against the wall... and then you realize that you're… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next. — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record. — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
I guess my path feels sort of different now... I don't know what's going to happen, but I certainly want to make music a… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
“And now a song for Jesus Christ and since this seems to confuse people I'd like to simply say that I mean what I sing although the theme of endless endless on this album is not based on any religion but more in the belief that all things seem to contain a white light within them that I see as… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share
My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next. — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination.… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
I feel like we're so limited by the context at which we look at life. The way we look at who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to love... everything. I feel like that, in and of itself, is a project of a lifetime: the problem of how to break out of the limiting context that is imposed… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share
I'm trying to find peace in the world, as it is. I'm feeling this sort of slow stripping of my mind, like the layers of an onion. I'm starting to see through all these little structures that have been imposed on me by my society that tell me how I'm supposed to view my life and the world. What I'm… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share
I think the songs I was writing after Aeroplane were full of a lot of undealt-with pain that was just a little too big... the issues seemed too large for me to confront intuitively through songwriting. I kept pushing it and pushing it. There are so many issues about being human and why people inflict pain on each other. There… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share
