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…

- Sufjan Stevens

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

- Sufjan Stevens

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

- Sufjan Stevens

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 …

- Sufjan Stevens

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…

- Sufjan Stevens

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 …

- Sufjan Stevens

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…

- Sufjan Stevens

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…

- Sufjan Stevens

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

- Sufjan Stevens