Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 12:17 PM
JamBase has an interview with Jeff Tweedy, the main man of Wilco:
I don't think that the creative process has ever been something that people have been very good at simplifying and explaining, myself included. I could say a lot of things have changed, and at the same time, I think it's also really hard for people to get it into their heads sometimes that most of the stuff I created in my life - even though I'm sober now and have achieved some greater sense of clarity for myself - I think most of the music and everything I've contributed, I would have to argue that the majority of it was created with that same type of clarity. It wasn't all done in some kind of pursuit of oblivion.
MP3: Wilco - Hate It Here
MP3: Wilco - What Light
» Read the interview
» wilcoworld.net
» myspace.com/wilco
# re: JamBase: the Jeff Tweedy Interview
12/12/2007 7:03 PM by
Would definitely have to agree, and not solely because Jeff Tweedy is perhaps the most gifted songwriter of this new generation. As a songwriter myself, I have never been able to adequately sustain an idea, let alone bring it to light, while under the influence of chemicals. Sure, seemingly-inspired little phrases may come through (we're talking lyrics here), and some of those if written down my crop up later in wholly-formed songs. But even the most erratic artists have to maintain that a good song requires at the very least the discipline to see it through, as well as the clarity to appreciate it.