I don't get to make many choices in my life as a single parent. — Phil Elverum Choices Copy Share Image
It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive… — Phil Elverum Absurd Copy Share Image
I want to not be associated with death or cancer, I don't want that life. — Phil Elverum Associated Copy Share Image
I don't want to return to places and sing the same songs a second time. — Phil Elverum Return Copy Share Image
Grief - the actual, natural process of it - doesn't have a schedule that I can work my life around. — Phil Elverum Grief Copy Share Image
I always like to play in beautiful cathedrals, when I can somehow get access to do a punk show there. — Phil Elverum Always Copy Share Image
Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within. — Phil Elverum Comedy Copy Share Image
I think I'm obsessed with accessibility which is why, when I'm touring, I want to play all ages shows. — Phil Elverum Accessibility Copy Share Image
When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording. — Phil Elverum About 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… — Phil Elverum Books Copy Share Image
It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still… — Phil Elverum Amazing Copy Share Image
I love things like the Criterion Collection DVDs. I think those are really well done. I like how far you can push… — Phil Elverum Done Copy Share Image
I can't bring myself to release an instrumental album because I feel like I want some meat on the bone. Something to… — Phil Elverum Bone Copy Share Image
I buy some black metal records kind of blindly, and I end up really liking maybe 30% of them. There's a lot… — Phil Elverum Black Copy Share Image
I like Copenhagen, just because my shows there have been really good for some reason. Not that I love the city itself,… — Phil Elverum Amazing Copy Share Image
I have a hard time working with other people with my own songs because I have a pretty complete idea of how… — Phil Elverum Better Copy Share Image
There are a lot of names on the credits of 'The Glow Pt. 2,' but most of those people are just on… — Phil Elverum Credits Copy Share Image
There's a lot of music out there that's like, 'I'm so mad! I'm sad! I'm into skulls and crossbones and the color… — Phil Elverum Color black Copy Share Image
Clear Moon' is more... clear I guess! It's more round-sounding and it's slightly gentler. 'Ocean Roar' is more challenging and weird and… — Phil Elverum Fog Copy Share Image
One thing I've heard that makes sense to me about grief is that there's this conception that it's a thing that you… — Phil Elverum End Copy Share Image
I've sort of accidentally put myself in this position where I opened up the story of my life, and of course people… — Phil Elverum Find Copy Share Image
I don't really see myself in a lineage which is fine with me. Sometimes I do try to explicitly copy an exact… — Phil Elverum Copy Copy Share Image
The universe is chaotic and meaningless, and it's good to laugh about it. That's my stance on life, actually. Some people go… — Phil Elverum Good Copy Share Image
I need some time to write songs and work on my thing, but I'm just living my life and doing family stuff… — Phil Elverum Cool Copy Share Image
After I made 'A Crow Looked at Me,' I remember people saying things to me like, 'You've made a beautiful tribute to… — Phil Elverum Beautiful Copy Share Image
I am commodifying my grief, to put it really bluntly. I accept it. And I try not to think about it. — Phil Elverum Accept Copy Share Image
It has happened a few times that I've found myself in a surprise mid-tour recording session. — Phil Elverum Few Copy Share Image
Usually I work at the merch table until one minute before I have to go on stage. — Phil Elverum Go Copy Share Image
Every tour is different. Sometimes I'll get a band together and sometimes it's just me. — Phil Elverum Band Copy Share Image
There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill. — Phil Elverum Cure Copy Share Image
I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it… — Phil Elverum Details Copy Share Image
I never want to keep doing the same thing more than once, honestly. — Phil Elverum Doing 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… — Phil Elverum Attention Copy Share Image
I'm actually not fussy. I enjoy getting into it and talking about anything, really. It feels good. — Phil Elverum About Copy Share Image
