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 black,' and that's just meaningless and shallow. So much of metal is about that and it's hard to… — 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
