Author Profile
Phil Elverum
1978 • American • Musician
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Showing 61 quotesThese 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
I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.— Phil Elverum
Clear Moon' is more... clear I guess! It's more round-sounding and it's slightly gentler. 'Ocean Roar' is more challenging and weird and darker and heavier - the idea was for it to feel like a thick fog laying on your head, versus a clear sky with the moon in it.— Phil Elverum
All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so crass. They didn't get it. Those books don't understand. Nobody understands.— Phil Elverum
Recording and touring are totally separate universes for me and it's strange and refreshing when they invade each other momentarily.— Phil Elverum
Every tour is different. Sometimes I'll get a band together and sometimes it's just me.— Phil Elverum
I just play under the name Mt. Eerie. I started doing that in 2003 and I've pretty much been doing that since then.— Phil Elverum
Life here (in the Pacific Northwest, not in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland or the chain of buildings connecting them but in the rest of the place, out west and east from the north-south I-5 river) can sometimes feel like a half-dream, half-myth.— Phil Elverum
My grandpa is the funniest person in the world, straight up. But mostly everyone in my family groans when he is 'on.' I am his biggest fan.— Phil Elverum
I've sort of accidentally put myself in this position where I opened up the story of my life, and of course people want to reciprocate and open up to me. I'm OK at it, I don't make people feel worse, but it's strange to find myself in this role, all of a sudden, that I never would have pursued.— Phil Elverum