As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Every recording session and tour is a very valuable time to me in terms of getting to spend time with the musicians… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
You're hoping that it's going to be an extraordinary experience any time you create and/or listen to music with other people. I… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I had a lot of time to myself, and I would listen to a lot of music, mostly music that I knew… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I want to be successful and I want people to hear the music and I want to make money at it, but… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars. — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
In the United States the government has become less important. So, it's democracy, but as each year passes it seems that the… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time. — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
To sing with other people and for other people, that's when you can really learn something about your voice. You can only… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
The less people present in an urgent situation that a moderately high stakes recording session can create - the less people there… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
As far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it requires a… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I do an opening in 'The Glory of the World' play at BAM, and then I go up to the high balcony in the… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
One thing that the Internet has created is the sense that information is at your fingertips, when it's really only a very, very limited,… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits of the… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that? — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion. — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence. — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in and kind… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
