Bill Callahan
Bill Callahan
Bill Callahanis an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, to which he remains signed today...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth3 June 1966
CountryUnited States of America
heard jesus religious time
My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.
hour million tiny
There are a million tiny weird towns. You never know what you're going to get into if you drive an hour into the wild.
christmas face fatter feels girlfriend sitting
You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.
albums inaccuracy reflecting
I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.
felt oceans power sort
I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I've always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that's not necessarily spiritual.
home record
I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years.
email
I was late to the Internet. I didn't really understand what it was. I didn't know what an email was.
lyrics
I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'
human life nature politics
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
father james
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.
integral
My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.
experience fill written
When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.
cross curls feels guess mouth music physical ready sing sort written
I cross things out more than I write them. And if I try to sing a line, and I know that it's written incorrectly, I get this weird sort of physical nausea, and my mouth curls up all strange. I guess that's why I always write the words first: because, if everything feels okay, I'm ready to put it to music.
deeper music rational stopping work
I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.