Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within. — Phil Elverum Comedy 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
On CBC Radio, the Canadian national radio, there's a show called 'WireTap.' The host is Jonathan Goldstein. It's amazing. — Phil Elverum Amazing 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
A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency. — Phil Elverum Being 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 Copy Share Image
I'm mostly fine with anyone using my music for whatever. Everything's just compost that gets reused. — Phil Elverum 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 love things like the Criterion Collection DVDs. I think those are really well done. I like how far you can push… — Phil Elverum 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 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
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
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
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
My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would… — Phil Elverum 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 Share Image
“I only had two real tasks [while in Norway]: gathering dead trees to burn from the surrounding small forest and getting water… — Phil Elverum Books Copy Share Image
It's challenging to live in Anacortes. I lived in Olympia for five years, went on tour for a year, ended up in… — Phil Elverum 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 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 Copy Share Image
I used to have a musical group with a girlfriend called The Thunderclouds. It was like a Beach Boys cover band. And… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
People used to assume I was a serious/sad person because of my music for some reason. — Phil Elverum Music Copy Share Image
I just play under the name Mt. Eerie. I started doing that in 2003 and I've pretty much been doing that since then. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I'm actually not fussy. I enjoy getting into it and talking about anything, really. It feels good. — Phil Elverum 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 not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I just can't turn off the part me that asks that question over and over. — Phil Elverum 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
They're all true - the cliches like 'one day at time' and 'ups and downs.' — Phil Elverum Cliche 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 Copy Share Image
Eric's Trip is still a huge influence on me. The style of those recordings and the rawness of them is very inspiring.… — Phil Elverum Amazing 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 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 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
Recording and touring are totally separate universes for me and it's strange and refreshing when they invade each other momentarily. — Phil Elverum 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 only had two real tasks [while in Norway]: gathering dead trees to burn from the surrounding small forest and getting water from a hole in a frozen stream. The rest of the time I wandered around, obsessed over my life dramas, stared into space, read books, wrote letters, made up songs, went…” quote by Phil Elverum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/phil-elverum-6384_books_i-only-had-two-real-tasks-while-in-norwa_2893302.jpg)
