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Portrait of Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens

(1975) Singer-songwriter United States

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Sufjan Stevens is a singer-songwriter from the United States, best known for The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007.

Quick Facts About Sufjan Stevens

Born: July 1, 1975
Nationality: United States
Profession: Singer-songwriter
Notable works: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007

About Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released ten solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nominations.

Awards & Honors

David di Donatello for Best Original Song PLUG Independent Music Awards Shortlist Music Prize Awards Circuit community awards Gold Derby Awards Guild of Music Supervisors Awards

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My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's…

Anxiety

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I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it…

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Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can…

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I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

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I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel…

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Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There…

Borders

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I have a lot of friends who have hula-hoops, it's like a mixture of dance and athletics and exercise, meditation. It's a…

Athletics

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It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those…

Beliefs

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Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes…

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I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are…

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If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is…

Character

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Yes, the kingdom of Christianity and the Church has been one of the most destructive forces in history, and there are levels…

Belief

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I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who…

Comedy

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I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an…

Cds

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Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial,…

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It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result.…

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I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I…

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Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that…

Aesthetic

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I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to…

Anarchy

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I have a love/hate relationship with Amy Grant, but I do go back to her Christmas albums once in a while. They're…

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I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that.…

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