How to Write One Song

by Jeff Tweedy

Physical movement, I would imagine, also makes it difficult to maintain any sense of being stuck psychologically. So yeah. Go for walks. If you want to write a song, take a walk.

you have to stop thinking that you’re going to make something great, or something that might make you famous. You have to stop thinking about anything other than what happened when you were a little kid, and you laid on the floor, and you drew. And you lost yourself in that drawing. And in the end, you absolutely loved that drawing because you made it yourself. And the drawing got hung up on the fridge regardless of how good it was, because your mom loves you and everybody loves you. Why can’t you be that kind to yourself?