Ted Leo Quotes

If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

I'm even old-school Instagram. I'm here for your "What did you have to eat today?" I'm fine with that.

I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe.

I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement.

I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball.

I am always thinking music.

I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion.

When you make a record and have to go out on tour for it, you have to go out on tour for it. Whether it's going to be joyful or not, you have to do it.

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you.

Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that.

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl.

There's a definite machinery behind everything that a band does, and sometimes it's hard to figure out how far to go in delegating certain responsibilities and staying COMPLETELY DIY.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy.

I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.

Some people never need to let up at all.

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.