Quotes from Jeffrey Lewis

Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about.

One good idea could cost you thousands of your days, but it's just time you'd be spending anyways

Born to be a natural artist you love or hate but can't deny While us minions in our millions tumble into history's chasm We might have a couple of laughs but we're still wastes of protoplasm

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.