Sufjan Stevens Quotes

We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring.

I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song,

I wouldn't mind being popular in other ways, but not with music.

I like residing in abstraction.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more ... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical ... I want less melody.

I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember.

I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.

Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing.

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it.

I don't think it's so hard to be commercial and interesting. Look at Prince, or Neil Young.

Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body, but nothing ever happens.

I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.

I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.

I think of the saddest thing I can and then add a sick dog to that. If I think of a sick dog from the beginning, I just stop there.

The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication.

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

Art is ... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.

I've never known a man who loved me.

I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'

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

That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work.

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

We stayed a long, long time, to see you, to meet you, to see you at last.

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

An imaginary baby is so much easier than a real baby. No diapers to change.

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.

I come from a folk tradition where you just dance however you feel comfortable.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.