Write a terrible song every day* Stay Inspired* I Made this thing today*

 

Sound opinions. Jeff tweedy and twilight overdrive. 

“And so what I think, what I think writer's block is, is that you don't stop writing, you stop liking anything that you write.

And, and, and you become, it becomes in, you know, inhibited in a way that feels like you can't work around it. The internal critic becomes out, has an outline, outsized impact on anything you start to write. My, my way to combat that is that I write through it.

I know a lot of songs I'm writing aren't good. I don't care. I don't like, I want, I have to write through it and not judge it.

And, and, and a lot of times I really love it by the time I'm done writing it, you know? Like, but I just look at it, if you tried to write a terrible song every day for 365 days a year, you would write a good song. Occasionally you couldn't do it, you know?”

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“The thing I always kind of tell people is I feel like I have more energy for it and I'm better at it than I've ever been. And that's probably what I feel most proud of.

I feel most proud of wanting to stay inspired and realizing that that's the real job I have, is to stay inspired and to consume other people's art and music and books and stuff like that, because it fills me up and I like being challenged. I want to feel like I'm getting better.”

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“When I'm home, I go to the studio every day, like a job, like I go to the studio every day. There's always something to work on. There's always something to finish.

If I don't have a new song, I have different kind of like, I have different exercises I do, if I'm like not really wanting to dig into any new songs. I like, you know, different ways of just creating in the studio that I feel really invigorate me, you know, just like setting up a drum machine and playing along with it until I hear something that's exciting and then building something off of that, out of nothing, all of those things I really feel really gratified that I get to do and like go home and go, wow, I made this thing today. And I'm like, and I forget about it and come at it like six months later or a year later or six years later and go, where did that come from?”

From Sound Opinions: Jeff Tweedy on "Twlight Override", Dec 19, 2025

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