I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.

- Colin Stetson

I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of being alone in…

- Colin Stetson

Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.

- Colin Stetson

It's important to me in the creation of it because I figured as soon as I crossed that threshold into effects and loops it would completely undermine…

- Colin Stetson

I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not.

- Colin Stetson

There are mics inside the instrument, a contact mic on my throat, and countless mics clustered around the air of the horn and throughout the room. I …

- Colin Stetson

I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where things are free to evolv…

- Colin Stetson

I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.

- Colin Stetson

I practice yoga and breathing daily along with all the exercises on the instrument. I'm getting more and more monastic about it, especially when I'm …

- Colin Stetson