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I'm not beholden to the public, and neither are the public beholden to me or my songs. I'm very much of a populist on those terms, I believe that the song is no longer mine anyway. I like to process the dispossession that happens when you play something live. I don't have a clue as to how these songs are going to plan out, whether they're going to be on a record. I don't know yet.

Sufjan Stevens's Popular Quotes

Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wron…

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There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much mo…

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All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.

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When I live, I'll give it all I've got.

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A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives …

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Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain a…

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Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect.

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My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though there was still a great deal of …

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The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get infor…

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