43 Quotes by Josh Tillman

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

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.

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

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

I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.

If music was made by some kind of critical theorist, it would sound like my music.

I think that life is messy and that human beings are insane.

My music asks people to think critically, so how can I get upset when people think about me critically?