When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I’m never aware of it at the time. I just make something. Kevin Parker Read Quote
For me, I’m just too bad at remembering the details of lengths of parts of songs, so if we had backing tracks, it would be a recipe for disaster. Kevin Parker Read Quote
Some of my most important musical experiences were from a burnt CD with songs my friend downloaded for me at a terrible digital quality. Kevin Parker Read Quote
My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist – almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which way I go as a person and what I feel comfortable as my identity. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I’ve always been of the idea that is doesn’t really matter where you are geographically – with ‘Lonerism,’ we made half the album in Australia, half the album in Paris. Kevin Parker Read Quote
That’s how a lot of Tame Impala songs start out – as ideas for songs I could potentially give to someone else. I think of them with a different persona in mind; it’s just a subconscious way of not being bound by what you think you are as an artist. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I’ve always made music on my own, but I didn’t think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had to pretend it was a band. Kevin Parker Read Quote
In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi. Kevin Parker Read Quote