I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas. — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy. — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones for getting… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Though I know for a fact that some of my fans would be happy for me to do anything that's going to help me… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe. I'm even old-school Instagram.… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
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. Sometimes a… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
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 tried to… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball. — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
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… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it. — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
