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" Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power. "
Foil
Humor
Power
" If music was made by some kind of critical theorist, it would sound like my music. "
Kind
Made
Music
" I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable. "
You
Pretty
Find
" I made a decision as a child that I would never let anyone tell me that I was invalid or inauthentic, or that my experiences were. "
Never
Child
Decision
" I play sad bastard music. For the money. "
Sad
Money
Music
" I think that life is messy and that human beings are insane. "
Messy
Think
Human
" I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits. "
Think
Greatest
Live
" I think you only have to pull stunts if the content of your music is meaningless. "
Music
Content
You
" I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job. "
Job
Good
Myself
" It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased. "
Experience
Think
Legitimate
" I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that. "
Love Is
Love
Far
" I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house. "
Manager
Successful
Steps
" I was asked to audition for the second season of 'Stranger Things.' I didn't want that level of exposure. I don't want to be TV famous. "
Want
Famous
Stranger
" I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket. "
Golden
Bored
Depressing
" I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.' "
Stop
Thinking
Yourself
" I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging. "
Start
Watch
Eyes
" Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry. "
Angry
Place
Kind
" My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift. "
Skepticism
Creativity
Gift
" My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice. "
Singing
Creative
Last
" My music asks people to think critically, so how can I get upset when people think about me critically? "
People
Upset
How
" There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life. "
Life
Forgetting
Art
" There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music. "
Risk
Music
Really
" What a crazy coincidence that the teaching of Christ sees to be so compatible with late-era capitalism, suburban isolation, rampant consumerism. And so I am not ever surprised when I see evangelicals contort themselves to justify supporting Donald Trump. "
Crazy
Capitalism
See
" When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off. "
Think
People
Music
" With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me. "
Powerful
Me
Solidarity
" You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. "
Down
You
Three
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