Bill Callahan

Music is a social act.

— Bill Callahan

“All thoughts are prey to some beast”

— Bill Callahan

As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.

— Bill Callahan

“And the weight of the world slips away...”

— Bill Callahan

“You are the reason I get out of bed. To tell you that I have gotten out of bed.”

— Bill Callahan

“I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.”

— Bill Callahan

“Eid ma clack shaw Zupoven del ba Mertepy ven seinur Cofally ragdah”

— Bill Callahan

“I don't want to destroy anything. But I want to know what I can destroy.”

— Bill Callahan

I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.

— Bill Callahan

“When faced with everything sometimes the best course of action is nothing.”

— Bill Callahan

“At the heel end of the day, I need my glass of wine. Christmas lights for the brain.”

— Bill Callahan

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

— Bill Callahan

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night,…

— Bill Callahan

“They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste.”

— Bill Callahan

“I didn't want to admit I was aware of what she was doing. Which is alright. But you shouldn't let someone seek…

— Bill Callahan

I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was…

— Bill Callahan

“I bought a big bag of potatoes and it's growing eyes like crazy. Other foods rot. Potatoes want to see.”

— Bill Callahan

I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.

— Bill Callahan

My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.

— Bill Callahan

“Love is the king of the beasts And when it gets hungry it must kill to eat Love is the king of…

— Bill Callahan

I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded…

— Bill Callahan

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for…

— Bill Callahan

“I wanted to hold you until I heard one voice. I stood without intention of moving and realized we see every punch…

— Bill Callahan

“I'm not really interested in religion or history or science or mathematics or psychology or politics or geography. I feel I am…

— Bill Callahan

“Everything I've done today could have been done by a bear. The long seasoned sleep. The lumbering out of bed. Tearing at…

— Bill Callahan

“I sometimes see a shortcoming in myself, how little patience or understanding I have for many people in the way they act.…

— Bill Callahan

“When they make the movie of your life they're going to have to ask you to do your own stunts because nobody,…

— Bill Callahan

At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours' walk, come back in, and record. And then…

— Bill Callahan

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

— Bill Callahan

“The only words I've said today are "beer" and "thank you".”

— Bill Callahan

“And I hope each morning you wake like a bird in a nest and fly without a thought.”

— Bill Callahan

“Your letter filled the hole in my day like a key. Turn it.”

— Bill Callahan

Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.

— Bill Callahan

“I have never cried in the shower. That's a woman thing I think.”

— Bill Callahan

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if…

— Bill Callahan

I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of…

— Bill Callahan

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing…

— Bill Callahan

My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.

— Bill Callahan

There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to…

— Bill Callahan

“Why do I do such things. I hope the answer is that I embrace life with abandon. But I fear the truth…

— Bill Callahan