BRANDON STOSUY: The BQE comes with an essay you wrote. The Asthmatic Kitty website includes explanatory notes. Is it important to you that people understand the background to this particular work?
SUFJAN STEVENS: I don't want to impose too much information. At the same time this project is so far-reaching and deliberate that I feel a certain anxiety about its success, and its ability to communicate clearly on its own. It's probably an indication of my insecurity that I'm over-explaining myself. It's also probably a result of not using a song to express myself. You think it's too much?
STOSUY: No, it's generous. In a recent interview recently you talked about encountering too much information in the digital age—"the white noise of information."
STEVENS: It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog. It seems like The BQE project is different because it's so physical and multi-disciplinary. It almost asks too much of its listener or
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