I didn't want to do a double album. I just felt like the last two records I made were like that, and a lot of records I was buying were like that, and it started to feel like it was… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much. — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day,… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!" — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I'm not ... pumped about being alive. But I don't think about suicide ever. I have a kid. I think that's just an automatic… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter. — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I probably wouldn't kill a spider now, I'd probably try to scoop it up in a cup and put it outside, but not for… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality. It's usually… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
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 Elvrum Copy Share Image
Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do. Music… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a few days.… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot.… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
