140 Quotes by Will Oldham

Sometimes they’ll have performances and invite me to be a featured soloist. I think that is what they call it in that world-“featured soloist.”

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn’t have telephones and doesn’t have a record player and doesn’t have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

I don’t like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can’t see in buildings and cars.

On days where I feel the karma is in balance I’m not afraid of death. And when I feel it’s weighing heavily on the negative side, then I get very scared and just think about eternal damnation and how unpleasant that would be.

Every recording session and tour is a very valuable time to me in terms of getting to spend time with the musicians – whether they’re friends and family or people I’ve just met – because I don’t have a job where I get to interact with people everyday.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don’t think I had that when I was a kid.

There’s very little admirable about being a pirate. There’s very little functional about a pirate. There’s very little real about a pirate.

I have a mantra that kind of explains my feelings on this subject, which is, “The past is the present is the future.” When you’re recording something, you’re making something that will exist in the future.

Frank Sinatra’s never been handsome, but he’s one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?