Phil Elverum

I like a bass drum. A big one.

— Phil Elverum

I'm pretty open.

— Phil Elverum

Music is only good sometimes.

— Phil Elverum

I'm artistically satisfied and happy.

— Phil Elverum

I consume the news daily. I'm not avoiding it.

— Phil Elverum

I reach out. I ask for help. I tell my story.

— Phil Elverum

Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks!

— Phil Elverum

I think that as a kid I was pretty drawn to melodrama.

— Phil Elverum

I was really into Michelangelo in seventh and eighth grade.

— Phil Elverum

I do like playing music with other people.

— Phil Elverum

I don't get to make many choices in my life as a single parent.

— Phil Elverum

I think I'm obsessed with accessibility which is why, when I'm touring, I want to play all ages shows.

— Phil Elverum

I am commodifying my grief, to put it really bluntly. I accept it. And I try not to think about it.

— Phil Elverum

When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.

— Phil Elverum

I am so thirsty to do my projects whenever I have a spare moment.

— Phil Elverum

Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within.

— Phil Elverum

I always like to play in beautiful cathedrals, when I can somehow get access to do a punk show there.

— Phil Elverum

Grief - the actual, natural process of it - doesn't have a schedule that I can work my life around.

— Phil Elverum

I want to not be associated with death or cancer, I don't want that life.

— Phil Elverum

For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a…

— Phil Elverum

My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would…

— Phil Elverum

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

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

There are a lot of names on the credits of 'The Glow Pt. 2,' but most of those people are just on…

— Phil Elverum

I have a hard time working with other people with my own songs because I have a pretty complete idea of how…

— Phil Elverum

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

I like Copenhagen, just because my shows there have been really good for some reason. Not that I love the city itself,…

— Phil Elverum

We had a simple 8-track studio set up in the record store where I worked. And just staying after work and experimenting,…

— Phil Elverum

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

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

Clear Moon' is more... clear I guess! It's more round-sounding and it's slightly gentler. 'Ocean Roar' is more challenging and weird and…

— Phil Elverum

I've sort of accidentally put myself in this position where I opened up the story of my life, and of course people…

— Phil Elverum

I used to have a musical group with a girlfriend called The Thunderclouds. It was like a Beach Boys cover band. And…

— Phil Elverum

One thing I've heard that makes sense to me about grief is that there's this conception that it's a thing that you…

— Phil Elverum

It's challenging to live in Anacortes. I lived in Olympia for five years, went on tour for a year, ended up in…

— Phil Elverum

I don't want to return to places and sing the same songs a second time.

— Phil Elverum

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive…

— Phil Elverum

There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill.

— Phil Elverum

Every tour is different. Sometimes I'll get a band together and sometimes it's just me.

— Phil Elverum

It has happened a few times that I've found myself in a surprise mid-tour recording session.

— Phil Elverum