Grant-Lee Phillips

I don't like knowing what the next song is because that's what I'd think about during the number we're playing.

I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.

I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I don't believe it's productive to go around and badmouth anyone that I work with, because at the end of the day, we all have to sit in front of each other and agree or disagree.