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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

Josh Tillman

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

Josh Tillman

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

Josh Tillman

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

Josh Tillman

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

Josh Tillman

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

Josh Tillman

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.

Josh Tillman

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

Josh Tillman

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

Josh Tillman

I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.

Josh Tillman