At different times in life, I’ve felt like it’s time to say goodbye from some form of myself that’s been hanging around for a while – you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They’re just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where’s it’s just time to move on. Kevin Parker Read Quote
Making music is so spiritual. I’m not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me. Kevin Parker Read Quote
When I became a ‘rock musician,’ I assumed pop music was easy to write and that interesting rock music, or alternative music, was hard. It was only later I realised that writing a pop song is the hardest thing musically. Kevin Parker Read Quote
If someone says, ‘Hey man, I love your album, it really got me through a breakup, but I downloaded it for free,’ I’ll be like, ‘Good! That’s good!’ Maybe he didn’t have the money for the album, but if he still listened to it, and it’s an important part of his life, that’s all I can ask for. I don’t want his twenty bucks. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I had this weird fetish for making the guitar sound like it wasn’t a guitar to try and trick people into actually thinking it was a keyboard. I don’t know why that was such an obsession, why I didn’t just get a keyboard. I guess it was because I had no money. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I wanted to make something that, from the sound of it, could be down at the club. I just realised that I’d never heard Tame Impala played somewhere with a dance floor or where people were dancing. Kevin Parker Read Quote
Surely there’s a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I don’t think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I used to hate iPhones. Before I got an iPhone, I used to be like, ‘What are you doing, sitting there on your phone. Join the real world, man.’ I categorically disliked iPhones. When my friends got an iPhone, I was like, ‘Oh, we lost him.’ Kevin Parker Read Quote
