Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down an…

- Jeff Mangum

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and…

- Jeff Mangum

For me, there's a lot of intrinsic mystery and power in folk music, but a lot of people don't perceive that music from around the world as something …

- Jeff Mangum

I think that so much of the creative process is a fragmentary one, and then it's about just allowing your intuition to put it together for you. It's …

- Jeff Mangum

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.

- Jeff Mangum

We consider the animals to be lower, and to me, that makes no sense at all. If you look at a tree or a mushroom or a squirrel, it's perfectly in tune…

- Jeff Mangum

The music is supposed to be healing.

- Jeff Mangum

I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.

- Jeff Mangum

I'm trying to find peace in the world, as it is. I'm feeling this sort of slow stripping of my mind, like the layers of an onion. I'm starting to see…

- Jeff Mangum