predatory wasps of the palisades is out to get us this is my favorite song ever sufjan, i could not love you more whatever your orientation or faith background
He wrote one that was published in a New School collection of graduates' writing called "We are Shielded by the Holy Ghost". Its very good. Flannery O'Connor is surely an influence.
Many thanks for this! I first thought that this interview was a recent one, but then I saw it's from 2004 :( That's a pitty, Sufjan is already been quiet for so long!
Why would his parents need to apologize for giving him such a great name? I think it suits him well. Glad he didn't change it. Crazy how the reporter seems to think the name "Jan" is the same as the "jan" in "SufJAN!?! I'd not heard the name "Sufjan" before either, but I kinda guessed it wasn't Germanic ... ha!