Grant-Lee Phillips

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the…

— Grant-Lee Phillips

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or…

— Grant-Lee Phillips

I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep…

— Grant-Lee Phillips

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

“Hey, she’s a piratey soul Full a' vinagar and glitter She is a song of her own From down the wrong end…

— Grant-Lee Phillips

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process…

— Grant-Lee Phillips

I don't like knowing what the next song is because that's what I'd think about during the number we're playing.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

I played with the same band for years and years and theres a beauty to having one solid core that you keep…

— Grant-Lee Phillips