Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevensis an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He first came to wider recognition with the 2000 album, A Sun Came, which was released on the Asthmatic Kitty label he co-founded with his stepfather. He is perhaps best known for his 2005 album, Illinois, which hit number one on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, and for the single "Chicago" from that album...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth1 July 1975
CountryUnited States of America
believe love-is mutual-respect
Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect.
writing blood years
Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.
falling-in-love falling-apart bed
All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.
sex sleep kissing
I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep. And when you wake up, you can’t stop thinking about kissing. Dammit, I can’t get anything done because I’m so busy thinking about kissing. Kissing is madness! But it’s absolute paradise, if you can find a good kisser.
musician adjectives madness
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
complete ways
I think the implausibility in some ways redeems me from having to complete it.
interest suspicious
I think you should be suspicious when there's a lot of interest in what you're doing,
evoke exciting illinois itself music seemed several states tone
I was working on several states simultaneously. The tone of the music for Illinois seemed much more exciting and challenging to me. The music itself seemed to evoke a very big character.
experience fully involved sensory
It's really about a sensory experience and getting fully involved and fully entrenched in the pageantry of Illinois.
experience fully involved sensory
It's really about a sensory experience and getting fully involved and entrenched in the pageantry of Illinois,
concerned seems word
Everyone seems really concerned for me now about the prospect. They use this word 'daunting' all the time.
song writing thinking
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.
thinking just-being boring
I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring.
moving stories brilliant
There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.