43 Quotes by Josh Tillman

What a crazy coincidence that the teaching of Christ sees to be so compatible with late-era capitalism, suburban isolation, rampant consumerism. And so I am not ever surprised when I see evangelicals contort themselves to justify supporting Donald Trump.

I made a decision as a child that I would never let anyone tell me that I was invalid or inauthentic, or that my experiences were.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

I love the exhilaration of feeling a pull quote come out of your mouth. The words just taste better.

I play sad bastard music. For the money.

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.