Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I think of the saddest thing I can and then add a sick dog to that. If I think of a sick… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
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… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
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… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
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… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring. — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that.… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Now that I fell into your arms My only lover, give out to give in I search for the capsule I lost” — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“I forgive you, mother, I can hear you And I long to be near you But every road leads to an end Yes every… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Every time Jimmy Scott sings, it's the same but slightly different. I don't know how he does that or where he gets that from.… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
