My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money,… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I think there's a curiosity that can make you feel anxious as to what the world's going to make of what you're… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
With some bands, there's a fear that if people do other things, the band is going to change and not hold it… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
“I know it'll change, and I know that is has changed. But I still think it's a very satisfying medium, to put… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
For the most part I stand by all of records. I just always like the one I've done most recently the best and I… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself,… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
