It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.

- Grant-Lee Phillips

I played with the same band for years and years and theres a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, its nice to …

- Grant-Lee Phillips

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

- Grant-Lee Phillips

I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.

- Grant-Lee Phillips

I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.

- Grant-Lee Phillips

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bittern…

- Grant-Lee Phillips

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

- Grant-Lee Phillips

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

- Grant-Lee Phillips