Anguish Quote by Phil Elvrum

I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day,…

— Phil Elvrum

Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!"

— Phil Elvrum

I'm not ... pumped about being alive. But I don't think about suicide ever. I have a kid. I think that's just an automatic…

— Phil Elvrum

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

— Phil Elvrum

I probably wouldn't kill a spider now, I'd probably try to scoop it up in a cup and put it outside, but not for…

— Phil Elvrum

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 move here…

— Phil Elvrum

When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality. It's usually…

— Phil Elvrum

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just…

— Phil Elvrum

Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do. Music…

— Phil Elvrum

I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a few days.…

— Phil Elvrum

A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot.…

— Phil Elvrum

Death is natural, and it happens early for some people. I acknowledge that, and in the next sentence, reject it, because it just sucks.…

— Phil Elvrum