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I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

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Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

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I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

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I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

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Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

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I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.

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I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

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Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

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Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

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I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: August 26th, 1967

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