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
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
They're all true - the cliches like 'one day at time' and 'ups and downs.' — Phil Elverum Cliche Copy Share Image
I like the experience being in the audience and being overwhelmed by sound, like thick, oppressive loud sound and distortion. — Phil Elverum Audience Copy Share Image
I just can't turn off the part me that asks that question over and over. — Phil Elverum Asks Copy Share Image
It feels weird to play songs that I don't really... feel any more. — Phil Elverum Feel Copy Share Image
My daughter is like a tether back to the functional world, and I'm aware of how helpful that is. — Phil Elverum Aware Copy Share Image
My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would… — Phil Elverum Band Copy Share Image
I'm really nervous about coming off as exclusive or elitist. At the same time, I recognize that when I put out vinyl… — 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
My shows have never been related to my albums at all because my albums have all kinds of crazy instruments and stuff… — Phil Elverum Band Copy Share Image
I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first… — Phil Elverum Breakthrough 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
If I wanted to make big, bombastic, distorted, echo-y, trippy music, the atmospheric stuff, a studio is nice. But it's nice to… — Phil Elverum Big Copy Share Image
Even when I was calling myself the Microphones I only really ever played new songs... because I feel, like, a pretty strong… — Phil Elverum Connection Copy Share Image
A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency. — Phil Elverum Being Copy Share Image
Somebody from Pitchfork Festival wanted me to have a Microphones reunion. It's a joke. It's just me. — Phil Elverum Festival Copy Share Image
I don't think my music is that big of a deal - my entire life is parenting. The fact that I make… — Phil Elverum Entire life Copy Share Image
Life here (in the Pacific Northwest, not in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland or the chain of buildings connecting them but in the rest… — Phil Elverum Life Copy Share Image
I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre,… — Phil Elverum Era 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 got into Nirvana, and it was my sort of awakening into the idea that music could be like rough and crazy… — Phil Elverum Bands Copy Share Image
Being a musician means I am 'hanging out' a lot, like driving on tour or being at a show or whatever, so… — Phil Elverum Driving Copy Share Image
Nirvana was happening when I was 14, kind of the perfect age. Growing up in Anacortes, Washington, it was close enough to… — Phil Elverum Age 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 am not satisfied with the ending of 'Mount Eerie' the album, so maybe by calling myself that, I am attempting to… — Phil Elverum Calling Copy Share Image
I do spend time trying to find good melodies, and I try to remember them when I do discover them. But also… — Phil Elverum End time Copy Share Image
I grew up without religion, but my parents have always been somewhat mystical about nature: The mountain is looking at us, stuff… — Phil Elverum Catholic 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
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
I am drawn to cold, desolate places rather than Hawaii. I actually love Hawaii too, but I tend to go to Iceland… — Phil Elverum Best 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
It's easy to get swept up in the day to day ridiculous things that are in the news. They're not meaningless, they're… — Phil Elverum Day 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
It's really hard just making dinner as a single parent, but I'm figuring it out. I just have to be more focused… — Phil Elverum Dinner Copy Share Image
After many days of grocery store food, sitting down for a deliberate, slow, expensive eating time can be the best. — Phil Elverum Best Copy Share Image
