140 Quotes by Will Oldham

My hope has always been that each record could have its own audience. Of course, it’s awesome to have a cumulative audience for more than one record, but I like the idea that there could be a record that an individual might like.

A record is something that isn’t real or true. It’s like cinema. It’s a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at the same time. You make a space that doesn’t really exist. One of the big joys of being in this line of work is building the recorded versions of the songs.

The less people present in an urgent situation that a moderately high stakes recording session can create – the less people there are in the room – the more openness there can be. These songs share that as well, in addition to just the obvious, basic starkness.

I like rural areas.

I really hate press.