Jeff Mangum Quotations

I made a record of montage sounds in '99 under the name Korena Pang, but it was never put out because it didn't do it for me.

I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

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 and create this finished, polished product.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next.

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

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

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 beautiful thing we can see.