The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I've never done a video where I feel like the images have anything to do with my song, except in the most… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I feel much more physically connected to my voice, and I like the physicality of the voice, and how the voice can… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal… — 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
My dream many years ago would've been to continue to write and record songs in record/album form for years to come, but… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed,… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
When I listen to little fourth-dimension artifacts, they're like they were made as time capsules in the first place. You know that… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song.… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
It's good when someone says, "Would you write a song for this purpose," or "would you record a song for this purpose,"… — 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
