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1. "I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'" ~ J. Tillman
2. "I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house." ~ J. Tillman
3. "It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased." ~ J. Tillman
4. "Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry." ~ J. Tillman
5. "My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift." ~ J. Tillman
6. "There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music." ~ J. Tillman
7. "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." ~ J. Tillman
8. "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." ~ J. Tillman
9. "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." ~ J. Tillman
10. "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." ~ J. Tillman
11. "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." ~ J. Tillman
12. "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." ~ J. Tillman
13. "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." ~ J. Tillman
14. "Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power." ~ J. Tillman
15. "I play sad bastard music. For the money." ~ J. Tillman
16. "I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket." ~ J. Tillman

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