My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn’t dig that, so she left him. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone. Kevin Parker Read Quote
The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it’s happened to me more than once, it’s probably happened to other people. Kevin Parker Read Quote
Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I don’t like the idea that I’m a one-trick pony, even if I am! No matter what else I do, I have to make sure that ‘Elephant’ isn’t Tame Impala’s biggest song anywhere. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same time, making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally. Just like a brain process. Kevin Parker Read Quote
The more I question myself about why I think pop is taboo, the more I realize it’s not. Kevin Parker Read Quote
There’s all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically… it’s music. It should be better than that. Kevin Parker Read Quote
There’s so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I have almost no memory of my parents ever speaking to each other. They split up on bad terms. I assumed that’s what family life was like. Just essentially a soap opera. Kevin Parker Read Quote