All my lies are only wishes / I know I would die if I could come back new. Jeff Tweedy More Quotes by Jeff Tweedy More Quotes From Jeff Tweedy I know my lies are always wishes. Jeff Tweedy wish knows lying I am an American aquarium drinker. Jeff Tweedy drinkers aquariums Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that. Jeff Tweedy internet radio people 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 doing. It's not necessarily what you're going to get back in terms of record reviews or how people talk about your record, it's getting on the road and playing the new songs live. Jeff Tweedy song people thinking I've never been healthier. I haven't had a cigarette in two years. I run four or five miles, four or five times a week. I've been healthy and having a really good time. Jeff Tweedy running two years 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. Jeff Tweedy hurt found mean I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page. Jeff Tweedy writing song thinking I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me. Jeff Tweedy surprise remember book My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing. Jeff Tweedy aspiration song people That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you doing it just for your ego? Jeff Tweedy ego song thinking 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 the record. Jeff Tweedy records enough people I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them. Jeff Tweedy support people thinking I think the songs are more about relationships that are endless. Jeff Tweedy endless song thinking 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 belief-systems belief feels 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 disturbed way needs I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt. Jeff Tweedy grain-of-salt salt records I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself. Jeff Tweedy acoustics song thinking 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 impact records different 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. Jeff Tweedy eye mean thinking I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having more chords to put into songs. I never got too wrapped up in becoming technically good. So writing songs happened pretty simultaneously with learning how to play the guitar. Jeff Tweedy writing song thinking
