Phil Elverum Quotes

Phil Elverum

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 23, 1978

In 2002 I did a big tour of Europe, by train, by myself, on foot, all the time walking from train station to the venue, in a weird town, in a weird country. I'd brought an acoustic guitar with me but it got broken somehow in transit.

Phil Elverum

My shows have never been related to my albums at all because my albums have all kinds of crazy instruments and stuff that could never be performed live. I'm used to people expecting this 12-piece band to show up with three drum sets and an accordion.

Phil Elverum

It feels weird to play songs that I don't really... feel any more.

Phil Elverum

Even when I was calling myself the Microphones I only really ever played new songs... because I feel, like, a pretty strong connection to the song when I'm performing it.

Phil Elverum

I was really into Michelangelo in seventh and eighth grade.

Phil Elverum

There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill.

Phil Elverum

Somebody from Pitchfork Festival wanted me to have a Microphones reunion. It's a joke. It's just me.

Phil Elverum

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.

Phil Elverum

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.

Phil Elverum

Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks!

Phil Elverum

It's interesting to think about the different forms one place can take.

Phil Elverum

It would be amazing to write a song that could be sung 100 years from now by a teenage girl and still be relevant to her - that's a dream of songwriting, maybe.

Phil Elverum

I feel like I spend most of my time in a state of writer's block! When things do come out, they come out quickly.

Phil Elverum

I do spend time trying to find good melodies, and I try to remember them when I do discover them. But also it's mostly intuitive; I noodle around with the line until it sounds and feels right.

Phil Elverum

I wanted to make a record that would transcend the bad, hard feelings of a love relationship not working out, to make something that metabolized it into something useful and good.

Phil Elverum

My daughter is like a tether back to the functional world, and I'm aware of how helpful that is.

Phil Elverum

I sometimes think about the life that my daughter will have with no mom. What does it mean to have a ghost mom? Not that I can do anything differently about it. But it's an inferior version of what we had planned, you know? This was not our top choice.

Phil Elverum

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

Phil Elverum

I love things like the Criterion Collection DVDs. I think those are really well done. I like how far you can push the deluxe-ness of things like that.

Phil Elverum

There are a lot of names on the credits of 'The Glow Pt. 2,' but most of those people are just on one half of one song or something.

Phil Elverum