I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours… — Phil Elvrum Couches Copy Share Image
Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!" — Phil Elvrum Annoying Copy Share Image
I'm not ... pumped about being alive. But I don't think about suicide ever. I have a kid. I think that's just… — Phil Elvrum Attention Copy Share Image
All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter. — Phil Elvrum All things Copy Share Image
I probably wouldn't kill a spider now, I'd probably try to scoop it up in a cup and put it outside, but… — Phil Elvrum Believe Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to… — Phil Elvrum Hate Copy Share Image
When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality.… — Phil Elvrum Causes Copy Share Image
I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think… — Phil Elvrum Behavior 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 Elvrum Anguish 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 Elvrum Attention Copy Share Image
I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a… — Phil Elvrum Fun Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that… — Phil Elvrum Awareness Copy Share Image
Death is natural, and it happens early for some people. I acknowledge that, and in the next sentence, reject it, because it… — Phil Elvrum Acknowledge Copy Share Image
If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people,… — Phil Elvrum Awareness Copy Share Image
I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical… — Phil Elvrum Amazing music Copy Share Image
I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see. — Phil Elvrum Counterparts Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do a double album. I just felt like the last two records I made were like that, and… — Phil Elvrum Albums Copy Share Image
To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses… — Phil Elvrum Bullshit Copy Share Image
People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels… — Phil Elvrum Attention Copy Share Image
Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it… — Phil Elvrum Communicate 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 Elvrum Beautiful Copy Share Image
When I read War and Peace in Norway, really far away from humanity for a long time, it was such an amazing,… — Phil Elvrum Affirming Copy Share Image
I really like looking at other people's book collections when I'm at someone's house. I think it is an amazing cross section… — Phil Elvrum Book Copy Share Image
When someone close to you dies, the line is shifted really drastically about what is meaningful and what isn't. — Phil Elvrum Meaningful Copy Share Image
For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love. — Phil Elvrum And love Copy Share Image
