Sufjan Stevens Quotes

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• I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in…
• We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family.…
• I’ve never known a man who loved me.
• I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and…
• I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just…
• I like residing in abstraction.
• I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s…
• I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it…
• My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through…
• Art is … a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.
• I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song,
• We stayed a long, long time, to see you, to meet you, to see you at last.
• I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog,…
• The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in…
• Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the…
• I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.
• One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white…
• The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was rebelling against traditions…
• I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.
• I think musicians should stay off television generally.

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