101 Quotes by Phil Elverum

I just can't turn off the part me that asks that question over and over.

My exposure to independent music was via Nirvana and grunge so I'd never gotten into punk. I don't really like that music of Crass, but I love the band, and I love their way, and their presentation.

I am commodifying my grief, to put it really bluntly. I accept it. And I try not to think about it.

I reach out. I ask for help. I tell my story.

These people that worked with my dad doing landscaping were in a grunge band so the music on the cover of Rolling Stone was in a very real way connected to people practicing in the woods near my house while I was home doing my homework.

Clear Moon' is more... clear I guess! It's more round-sounding and it's slightly gentler. 'Ocean Roar' is more challenging and weird and darker and heavier - the idea was for it to feel like a thick fog laying on your head, versus a clear sky with the moon in it.

I want to not be associated with death or cancer, I don't want that life.

Every tour is different. Sometimes I'll get a band together and sometimes it's just me.

I think I'm obsessed with accessibility which is why, when I'm touring, I want to play all ages shows.