Wilco: Jeff Tweedy Book Revelations

Jeff Tweedy‘s memoir, Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back), comes out on Tuesday, and if an excerpt that ran yesterday is any indication, he doesn’t sugar-coat some of the rough times he went through.

The segment is about his addiction to prescription painkillers, brought on by chronic migraines and mood swings, which he says nearly killed him during the making of Wilco‘s 2004 album A Ghost Is Born. He writes, “I thought I was going to die. Every song we recorded seemed likely to be my last. Every note felt final.”

He also reveals that on that album he used songs about animals to represent “the different aspects of my personality worth saving…It sounds ridiculous now, but at the time it made perfect sense.”

You can check out the full excerpt at RollingStone.com. Tweedy starts a short book tour in Brooklyn, New York the day it’s released.