“Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay atte...” — Phil Elverum Quote

“Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do.”

“Recording and touring are totally separate universes for me and it's strange and refreshing when they invade each other momentarily.”

“Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.”

“From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.”

“I didn't hate Nirvana. That was more of a media-constructed this-versus-that thing.”

“I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.”