Jeff Tweedy
Jeff Tweedy
Jeffrey Scot "Jeff" Tweedyis an American songwriter, musician, and record producer best known as the leader of the band Wilco...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth25 August 1967
CityBelleville, IL
CountryUnited States of America
mean eye thinking
If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.
hurt mean found
Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it.
mean avant-garde never-change
Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.
letting-go mean forget
The main thing I learned is that the more I can forget about being embarrassed when I make something, the more it is going to mean something to somebody else. I can't anticipate what it's going to be or how it's going to be perceived, so the quicker I let go of something I make, the better.
musical time
I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.
life music obsessed relationship rock seeing surrounds understand ways
I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.
dismal hope level maintained music
Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
call considered country listened people
I've never considered us a country band, ... Even after this record, people still call us a country band. Have they listened to this record?
confront horrible lyrics
Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.
best good parts stuff transcend
I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.
listening people problem understand
We never could understand what the problem was with people listening to your music. I thought that was the whole point.
good life
I don't think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn't good.
bad guess guilty life regardless
I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.