A biography for Phoebe Bridgershasn’t been written yet.
“I'm marrying everybody I fall in love with.”
“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.”
“I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.”
“Joshua Kirk, the YouTube kid with the glasses who looks directly into the camera - I really love his album reviews. He's been doing it for years.”
“For every single person who's struggled with depression, there's this weird part of your brain that tells you you're the only person who's ever felt like that, even if you know for a fact it's not true.”
“Twitter is an extension of every dumb thought I have, firing it off - Instagram is a little more methodical.”
“I can't really remember my first headline show.”
“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.”
“Doing stuff on my own terms and making a record without being signed to a label - I credit that all to my commercial work.”
“I do the least 'working on myself' in our band.”
“I love a good chorus, you know? I consider a lot of what I love pop. I consider Mitski pop.”
“I think it's easier for me to write from experience.”
“Sadness can feel so unproductive.”
“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.”
“When I'm writing, I try to think about what would make a song better before worrying about personal opinions.”
“I feel like 'Pitchfork' has a style, and you always know what they're gonna say and what they're gonna pick apart.”
“I think the longform email is exhilarating and exhausting at the same time.”