Quotes by Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens

Art is… a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.

Art

Reflection

Separation

Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.

Pain

Suffering

Thinking

Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people’s pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.

Growing Up

Illinois

Native American

I don’t really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It’s just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

Book

Knitting

Littles

I like residing in abstraction.

Abstraction

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.

Kissing

Sex

Sleep

I still describe myself as a Christian, and my love of God and my relationship with God is fundamental, but its manifestations in my life and the practices of it are constantly changing. I find incredible freedom in my faith.

Christian

Fundamentals

Practice

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.

Song

Thinking

Writing

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

Musician

Television

Thinking

I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don’t think my music would speak to those people. I don’t even want those people to hear what I’m doing.

Musician

People

Thinking

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Abstraction

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Body

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Challenges

Christian

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Community

Computer

Creating

Creativity

Cutting

Designer

Done

Earth

Editing

Electronics

Encounters

Fabulous

Father

Feelings

Fundamentals

Gossip

Graphic

Grieving

Growing Up

Guitar

Hands

Hard Times

Healthy

Heart

Home

Honest

Honor

Illinois

Joy

Kids

Kissing

Knitting

Known

Littles

Manipulate

Mean

Memories

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Quotes by Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens

Art is… a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.

Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.

Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people’s pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.

I don’t really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It’s just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

I like residing in abstraction.

I still describe myself as a Christian, and my love of God and my relationship with God is fundamental, but its manifestations in my life and the practices of it are constantly changing. I find incredible freedom in my faith.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don’t think my music would speak to those people. I don’t even want those people to hear what I’m doing.

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