Top 35 Phoebe Bridgers Quotes

Sometimes I just need somebody to tell me a bunch of ideas I don’t like, so that I can figure out what it is I actually want.

I love women in suits.

I played at Room 5 a lot, which is probably the smallest capacity venue in Los Angeles. I begged my friends to come see me.

People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people to produce me.

My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was ‘Lovesick Blues’ by Hank Williams.

I have this thing in the back of my brain that dares me to think of the most disturbing thing.

But me writing sad songs doesn’t mean I am a sad person.

Boygenius’ was the first time I produced without a producer-producer in the room. It’s been crazy.

I think the longform email is exhilarating and exhausting at the same time.

Often people have to wake me up from a nap to tell me to go on stage.

I love a good chorus, you know? I consider a lot of what I love pop. I consider Mitski pop.

I did a CBS thing when I was a teenager that was a ‘Music Minute’ or something.

I can’t really remember my first headline show.

If you’re saying you’re epically depressed in a song, you better be able to back it up. You better be able to talk about it in a smart way with someone who comes up to you after a show and is looking for help.

There is nothing more useless than an album that you don’t feel strongly about, out in the world.

People are realising that vulnerability isn’t a weakness, and the rise of mental health-related humour is making vulnerability feel like a strength.

I feel like in pop music and even indie music, there’s this weird thing where women have been pitted against each other.

I actually have a kind of fantasy about doing a covers album in general. My music taste is so eclectic, that I think it would be cool to put it through the funnel of my arrangements.

I think it’s easier for me to write from experience.

We’re all guilty of slacktivism, or of feeling like a savior for taking two seconds of your day to think about someone else.

A lot of my close friends are musicians and are consumed by the idea of death; their heads are like a torture chamber. I’m not like that – I don’t have death anxiety and I don’t think about it all the time.

Doing stuff on my own terms and making a record without being signed to a label – I credit that all to my commercial work.

Whenever I write songs, it’s my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don’t as often feel compelled to write when I’m not really sad about something, or wanting to sort through something dark.

I’m obsessed with Elliott Smith, which is very common knowledge.

Because I write what I feel the most heavy about. So if there is one day of the week when I feel completely crushed by existential dread, I’ll end up writing about it, not the great day I had at the park with my friends. I hope it resonates with people – and it does, with some.

You look at Taylor Swift, and every ‘i’ is dotted, every story is finished.

Once in a blue moon I’ll have some sort of concept song or it will be about a bunch of different things, but yeah, it’s all from experiences.

None of my family are musicians, but there was a lot of classic rock and country going on. I always wanted to sing. As soon as I expressed an interest my mom was super supportive of me.

I didn’t go to college and I worked so I could play music. That was my goal.

I love going on walks and talking to people.

All the things people hate about touring, I’m excited for, because I’ve never done it before. I’m excited to see places I’ve never seen and be in the van and see if I get carsick while reading.

Twitter is an extension of every dumb thought I have, firing it off – Instagram is a little more methodical.

I don’t remember making a decision about music. I just always knew it was what I was going to do.

I was planning to go into the studio in the summer of 2018, and then I started two bands!

I do the least ‘working on myself’ in our band.