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As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

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Phil Elvrum

I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.

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All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

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When I read War and Peace in Norway, really far away from humanity for a long time, it was such an amazing, affirming blast of "humanity" in all forms. It totally cracked my mind-nut open and rainbows shot out. I loved humanity and being alive, rather than wanting to bury my head in the snow.

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For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.

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When someone close to you dies, the line is shifted really drastically about what is meaningful and what isn't.

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Death is natural, and it happens early for some people. I acknowledge that, and in the next sentence, reject it, because it just sucks. It hurts. I can at the same time acknowledge it as true, and then have my protest against it.

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