Song Quotes by Jeff Mangum

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

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next.

— Jeff Mangum

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

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

“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…

— Jeff Mangum

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

— Jeff Mangum

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

— Jeff Mangum

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

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…

— Jeff Mangum

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…

— Jeff Mangum

The music is supposed to be healing.

— Jeff Mangum

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...…

— Jeff Mangum

When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really…

— Jeff Mangum

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story…

— Jeff Mangum

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and…

— Jeff Mangum