I used to have a musical group with a girlfriend called The Thunderclouds. It was like a Beach Boys cover band. And we would just figure out Beach Boy songs – break ’em into two-part harmonies. And, you know, we played a couple of shows around Olympia. It was very fun. Phil Elverum Read Quote
I remember discovering that I loved recording – that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time. Phil Elverum Read Quote
Usually I work at the merch table until one minute before I have to go on stage. Phil Elverum Read Quote
Grief – the actual, natural process of it – doesn’t have a schedule that I can work my life around. Phil Elverum Read Quote
It is something I’ve noticed – that my audiences are young. My only thought has been because I play all-ages shows. Even so, they’re pretty young, and sometimes I’m nervous the content of my songs – these weird, ambiguous, philosophical ideas I’m trying to articulate. Are the kids getting it? Is it going over their heads? Phil Elverum Read Quote
For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that’s all they ever said: ‘You must be a nature lover. Are you camping all the time?’ Phil Elverum Read Quote
Nirvana was happening when I was 14, kind of the perfect age. Growing up in Anacortes, Washington, it was close enough to Seattle that it seemed like a local thing. Phil Elverum Read Quote
These people that worked with my dad doing landscaping were in a grunge band so the music on the cover of Rolling Stone was in a very real way connected to people practicing in the woods near my house while I was home doing my homework. Phil Elverum Read Quote
I have a hard time working with other people with my own songs because I have a pretty complete idea of how it should be. It’s usually just me multi-tracking which is better than coercing someone into doing my idea. Phil Elverum Read Quote
