After many days of grocery store food, sitting down for a deliberate, slow, expensive eating time can be the best. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Usually I work at the merch table until one minute before I have to go on stage. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I just can't turn off the part me that asks that question over and over. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
They're all true - the cliches like 'one day at time' and 'ups and downs.' — Phil Elverum Cliche 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 Audience Copy Share Image
I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
People used to assume I was a serious/sad person because of my music for some reason. — Phil Elverum Music Copy Share Image
I'm actually not fussy. I enjoy getting into it and talking about anything, really. It feels good. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I love things like the Criterion Collection DVDs. I think those are really well done. I like how far you can push… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I can't bring myself to release an instrumental album because I feel like I want some meat on the bone. Something to… — 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 Amazing Copy Share Image
All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just… — Phil Elverum Books Copy Share Image
I don't think my music is that big of a deal - my entire life is parenting. The fact that I make… — Phil Elverum Entire life Copy Share Image
I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful - an enclave, really, of retreat. It's not helpful for… — 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 Connection Copy Share Image
If I wanted to make big, bombastic, distorted, echo-y, trippy music, the atmospheric stuff, a studio is nice. But it's nice to… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
“I only had two real tasks [while in Norway]: gathering dead trees to burn from the surrounding small forest and getting water… — Phil Elverum Books Copy Share Image
After I made 'A Crow Looked at Me,' I remember people saying things to me like, 'You've made a beautiful tribute to… — Phil Elverum Beautiful Copy Share Image
It is something I've noticed - that my audiences are young. My only thought has been because I play all-ages shows. Even… — Phil Elverum Happiness 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
The universe is chaotic and meaningless, and it's good to laugh about it. That's my stance on life, actually. Some people go… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I don't really see myself in a lineage which is fine with me. Sometimes I do try to explicitly copy an exact… — 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 Attention Copy Share Image
I just play under the name Mt. Eerie. I started doing that in 2003 and I've pretty much been doing that since then. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Somebody from Pitchfork Festival wanted me to have a Microphones reunion. It's a joke. It's just me. — Phil Elverum Festival Copy Share Image
My daughter is like a tether back to the functional world, and I'm aware of how helpful that is. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency. — Phil Elverum Being Copy Share Image
I'm mostly fine with anyone using my music for whatever. Everything's just compost that gets reused. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
“Coming out of a dream or a book, the real world is such a deceptive and essentially miserable place.” — Phil Elverum Books Copy Share Image
On CBC Radio, the Canadian national radio, there's a show called 'WireTap.' The host is Jonathan Goldstein. It's amazing. — Phil Elverum Amazing Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first… — Phil Elverum Breakthrough Copy Share Image
My shows have never been related to my albums at all because my albums have all kinds of crazy instruments and stuff… — 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 Age Copy Share Image
Being a musician means I am 'hanging out' a lot, like driving on tour or being at a show or whatever, so… — Phil Elverum Driving 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 Bands Copy Share Image
There are parts on 'Wind's Poem' that are literal recordings of wind. I had this old sound effects record that I got… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
![“I only had two real tasks [while in Norway]: gathering dead trees to burn from the surrounding small forest and getting water from a hole in a frozen stream. The rest of the time I wandered around, obsessed over my life dramas, stared into space, read books, wrote letters, made up songs, went…” quote by Phil Elverum](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/519/phil-elverum-6384_books_i-only-had-two-real-tasks-while-in-norwa_2893302.jpg)
