Sufjan Stevens

“Are you awake, or are you half asleep?”

— Sufjan Stevens

“Are you half awake, or half asleep?”

— Sufjan Stevens

When I live, I'll give it all I've got.

— Sufjan Stevens

I like residing in abstraction.

— Sufjan Stevens

I’ve never known a man who loved me.

— Sufjan Stevens

“Words are futile devices.”

— Sufjan Stevens

“Now that I fell into your arms My only lover, give out to give in I search for the capsule I lost”

— Sufjan Stevens

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

— Sufjan Stevens

We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.

— Sufjan Stevens

We stayed a long, long time, to see you, to meet you, to see you at last.

— Sufjan Stevens

I don't think it's so hard to be commercial and interesting. Look at Prince, or Neil Young.

— Sufjan Stevens

Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body, but nothing ever happens.

— Sufjan Stevens

I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'

— Sufjan Stevens

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

— Sufjan Stevens

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents…

— Sufjan Stevens

I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a…

— Sufjan Stevens

One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was…

— Sufjan Stevens

There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain…

— Sufjan Stevens

I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.

— Sufjan Stevens

“I forgive you, mother, I can hear you And I long to be near you But every road leads to an end…

— Sufjan Stevens

That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

— Sufjan Stevens

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your…

— Sufjan Stevens

It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance…

— Sufjan Stevens

It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's…

— Sufjan Stevens

I'm not beholden to the public, and neither are the public beholden to me or my songs. I'm very much of a…

— Sufjan Stevens

I still describe myself as a Christian, and my love of God and my relationship with God is fundamental, but its manifestations…

— Sufjan Stevens

I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would like…

— Sufjan Stevens

My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of…

— Sufjan Stevens

Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I…

— Sufjan Stevens

The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you…

— Sufjan Stevens

I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than…

— Sufjan Stevens

I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures,…

— Sufjan Stevens

I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of…

— Sufjan Stevens

I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist…

— Sufjan Stevens

“Perhaps we don't like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size, our dimples, our knuckles too big,…

— Sufjan Stevens

“I always knew you In your mothers arms I have called your name I have an idea Placed in your mind To…

— Sufjan Stevens

Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful…

— Sufjan Stevens

I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context,…

— Sufjan Stevens

An imaginary baby is so much easier than a real baby. No diapers to change.

— Sufjan Stevens

I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music.

— Sufjan Stevens