On Song . . . Father John Misty
You’ve traded under the name J Tillman for many years – why change to Father John Misty?
It was more or less an experiment. I’d gone under my own name for so long, and I had this horrible idea that it had become an alter ego, and that J Tillman was this person who did not resemble me. Identity is an arbitrary construct. There’s some innate aspect of artifice to performance, and I wanted to be forthright about that or absurd about ...
