Jeffrey Scot "Jeff" Tweedy (born August 25, 1967) is an American songwriter, musician, record producer best known as the leader of the band Wilco. Read full biography of Jeff Tweedy →
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 definitely... →
We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since... →
Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.
I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.
I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.
Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.
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 realize there are 20 things... →
I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that... →
I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to... →
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 turning on the... →
Jeffrey Scot "Jeff" Tweedy (born August 25, 1967) is an American songwriter, musician, record producer best known as the leader of the band Wilco.