I like the experience being in the audience and being overwhelmed by sound, like thick, oppressive loud sound and distortion. — Phil Elverum Experience 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
They're all true - the cliches like 'one day at time' and 'ups and downs.' — Phil Elverum Cliches Copy Share Image
A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency. — Phil Elverum Being 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
My exposure to independent music was via Nirvana and grunge so I'd never gotten into punk. I don't really like that music… — Phil Elverum Band Copy Share Image
I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come… — Phil Elverum Come Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it… — Phil Elverum Bad Copy Share Image
My grandpa is the funniest person in the world, straight up. But mostly everyone in my family groans when he is 'on.'… — Phil Elverum Biggest fan 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
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
I wanted to make a record that would transcend the bad, hard feelings of a love relationship not working out, to make… — Phil Elverum Bad Copy Share Image
I sometimes think about the life that my daughter will have with no mom. What does it mean to have a ghost… — Phil Elverum Children 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
In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood… — Phil Elverum Clothes Copy Share Image
I'm singing these songs about death and stuff. I see somebody who's, like, in their sixties or seventies at the show, and… — Phil Elverum Death 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
When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording. — Phil Elverum About 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
There are a lot of names on the credits of 'The Glow Pt. 2,' but most of those people are just on… — Phil Elverum Glow 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
“Coming out of a dream or a book, the real world is such a deceptive and essentially miserable place.” — Phil Elverum Books Copy Share Image
For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a… — Phil Elverum Music 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
