Phil Elverum Quotes

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.

If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.

I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.

My family and friends and career are very important to me, but running allows me to be a better friend, a better family member, and makes me better at my career.

My go-to protective thing is isolation. It's turn off the phone, don't speak to anyone, lie in bed all day, and then maybe go out at night and do the same thing over again.

Some of my closest friends know that when I worry about something or when I'm upset, I close myself off and stay in my room. I watch movies and I don't get out of bed.

What's going on in my life, I never bring it to the basketball court.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.

It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.

There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it.

Acting's fun, but life's more important.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.