27 Quotes by J. Tillman

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

I play sad bastard music. For the money.

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.

I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it.

You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.

Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything I have done in my adult life. Maybe Christianity has, but certainly not the bullshit Christian music I was listening to when I was 12. To me there's not much substance in that music. I don't have a message or anything.

I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.