I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of human…

- Will Oldham

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

- Will Oldham

I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now enough to record a new se…

- Will Oldham

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

- Will Oldham

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.

- Will Oldham

When you're listening to a recording, you're supposedly listening to some aspect of the past in the present as you travel slowly into the future, but…

- Will Oldham

Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and strange pos…

- Will Oldham

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

- Will Oldham

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

- Will Oldham