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

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

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beaut…

- Jeff Mangum

The music is supposed to be healing.

- Jeff Mangum

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

- 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

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