American - Musician | May 3, 1981 -
Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.
Josh Tillman
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I love the exhilaration of feeling a pull quote come out of your mouth. The words just taste better.
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People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.
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J. Tillman was kind of an alter ego. There was a lot I didn't want people to know about my real life. With Father John Misty, I leave everything in: so much so that I lose sleep before these albums come out because there is always a line or two in there where I'm just like, 'This is not going to go down very well.'
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I think Kanye West is a hilarious writer.
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My guiding principle when writing with other people is that it's not worth it to give someone a song unless it hurts for me to give them that song.
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Love is the substance of human survival.
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