Jeff Mangum

“And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea, but for now we are…

— Jeff Mangum

We can see an anthill or a roach or a flower or anything, but we have this frame where our mind recognizes…

— Jeff Mangum

We consider the animals to be lower, and to me, that makes no sense at all. If you look at a tree…

— Jeff Mangum

I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the…

— Jeff Mangum

Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in…

— Jeff Mangum

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

— Jeff Mangum

For now we are young, let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

— Jeff Mangum

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they…

— Jeff Mangum

I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get…

— Jeff Mangum

I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent,…

— Jeff Mangum

For me, there's a lot of intrinsic mystery and power in folk music, but a lot of people don't perceive that music…

— Jeff Mangum

Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is…

— Jeff Mangum

When so many of our dreams had come true and yet I still saw that so many of my friends were in…

— Jeff Mangum

There is a whole aspect of freedom to recording at home that you don't get in a studio. The possibilities are infinite,…

— Jeff Mangum