Want Doing Quotes by Phil Elverum

I like the experience being in the audience and being overwhelmed by sound, like thick, oppressive loud sound and distortion.

— Phil Elverum

I want to not be associated with death or cancer, I don't want that life.

— Phil Elverum

They're all true - the cliches like 'one day at time' and 'ups and downs.'

— Phil Elverum

A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency.

— Phil Elverum

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

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

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

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

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

Usually I work at the merch table until one minute before I have to go on stage.

— Phil Elverum

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

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

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

Every tour is different. Sometimes I'll get a band together and sometimes it's just me.

— Phil Elverum

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