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… — 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
Despite the fact that I trust the people at major labels who tell me that they want to offer me a home as a… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
When you make a record and have to go out on tour for it, you have to go out on tour for it. Whether… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas. — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
