Will Oldham

As far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it…

— Will Oldham

It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

— Will Oldham

I like rural areas.

— Will Oldham

The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing…

— Will Oldham

I do an opening in 'The Glory of the World' play at BAM, and then I go up to the high balcony…

— Will Oldham

One thing that the Internet has created is the sense that information is at your fingertips, when it's really only a very,…

— Will Oldham

As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits…

— Will Oldham

I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what…

— Will Oldham

Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not…

— Will Oldham

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

— Will Oldham

To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

— Will Oldham

Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in…

— Will Oldham

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to…

— Will Oldham

My booking agent, of course, here and overseas, their tendency is to want to build on a certain kind of measurable success,…

— Will Oldham

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't…

— Will Oldham

I felt so liberated when I first saw Charles Mee’s 'The Glory of the World' at BAM play, because for me this…

— Will Oldham

Sometimes the ensemble 'Eighth Blackbird' will have performances and invite me to be a featured soloist. I think that is what they…

— Will Oldham

I really hate press.

— Will Oldham

You're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.

— Will Oldham

I was really looking forward to doing the thing that I do - I basically appear just at the beginning and at…

— Will Oldham

I've never done a video where I feel like the images have anything to do with my song, except in the most…

— Will Oldham

I feel much more physically connected to my voice, and I like the physicality of the voice, and how the voice can…

— Will Oldham

I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now…

— Will Oldham

We always keep things very, very simple. We can make a respectable living playing a smaller room that somebody else couldn't, because…

— Will Oldham

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

— Will Oldham