Sufjan Stevens: 'I've always been insecure about what I do' – interview

Sufjan Stevens is one of America's most restlessly creative musicians, his 2005 album, Illinoise, a dizzying masterpiece. Here he talks about his hippie childhood, his wilfully disorienting new sound and why, at 35, he's celebrating a 'second puberty'The last time we saw Sufjan Stevens performing on these shores, in November 2006, he was tossing inflatable Superman and Santa figures into a rapturous crowd at the Barbican. Fringed by silver tinsel and backlit by votive candles, he wore a boy-sco...

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