Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do. Music that you want to…

- Phil Elvrum

Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it for any functional thing.

- Phil Elvrum

I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a few days. It was really fun, and funny t…

- Phil Elvrum

I didn't want to do a double album. I just felt like the last two records I made were like that, and a lot of records I was buying were like that, an…

- Phil Elvrum

I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - I would hate that.

- Phil Elvrum

Death is natural, and it happens early for some people. I acknowledge that, and in the next sentence, reject it, because it just sucks. It hurts. I c…

- Phil Elvrum

To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses their mind.

- Phil Elvrum

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb …

- Phil Elvrum

It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it will feel good later, and vice versa. T…

- Phil Elvrum