Song Quotes by Ted Leo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball.

— Ted Leo

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

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

Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that.

— Ted Leo

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

— Ted Leo