My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I'm really nervous about coming off as exclusive or elitist. At the same time, I recognize that when I put out vinyl… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Eric's Trip is still a huge influence on me. The style of those recordings and the rawness of them is very inspiring.… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
There are a lot of names on the credits of 'The Glow Pt. 2,' but most of those people are just on… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I buy some black metal records kind of blindly, and I end up really liking maybe 30% of them. There's a lot… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Even when I was calling myself the Microphones I only really ever played new songs... because I feel, like, a pretty strong… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Nirvana was happening when I was 14, kind of the perfect age. Growing up in Anacortes, Washington, it was close enough to… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
There's a lot of music out there that's like, 'I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
The Beach Boys were my favorite. I use to listen to their hits over and over, especially 'In My Room' and 'Don't… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
These people that worked with my dad doing landscaping were in a grunge band so the music on the cover of Rolling… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I need some time to write songs and work on my thing, but I'm just living my life and doing family stuff… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I got into Nirvana, and it was my sort of awakening into the idea that music could be like rough and crazy… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre,… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I'm singing these songs about death and stuff. I see somebody who's, like, in their sixties or seventies at the show, and… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I'm open to making any kind of music, or maybe making no music ever again. That's also an option, always. Who knows… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
My exposure to independent music was via Nirvana and grunge so I'd never gotten into punk. I don't really like that music… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I do spend time trying to find good melodies, and I try to remember them when I do discover them. But also… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I like the experience being in the audience and being overwhelmed by sound, like thick, oppressive loud sound and distortion. — Phil Elverum Copy Share
I like Copenhagen, just because my shows there have been really good for some reason. Not that I love the city itself, but every… — Phil Elverum Copy Share
My exposure to independent music was via Nirvana and grunge so I'd never gotten into punk. I don't really like that music of Crass,… — Phil Elverum Copy Share
I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come out quickly. — Phil Elverum Copy Share
It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it will feel… — Phil Elverum Copy Share
My grandpa is the funniest person in the world, straight up. But mostly everyone in my family groans when he is 'on.' I am… — Phil Elverum Copy Share
Usually I work at the merch table until one minute before I have to go on stage. — Phil Elverum Copy Share
All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so… — Phil Elverum Copy Share
I wanted to make a record that would transcend the bad, hard feelings of a love relationship not working out, to make something that… — Phil Elverum Copy Share
I sometimes think about the life that my daughter will have with no mom. What does it mean to have a ghost mom? Not… — Phil Elverum Copy Share
Every tour is different. Sometimes I'll get a band together and sometimes it's just me. — Phil Elverum Copy Share
In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids. — Phil Elverum Copy Share
