With ‘Innerspeaker’ I was trying to do these hypnotic ’60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like they were sampled. It was making electronic sampled music but using real instruments to do it. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I’m the dude who never gets on the board. Kevin Parker Read Quote
My brain has a weird way of turning pressure into other things. I make a point to myself of shrugging it off – of going the other way and doing something for myself, wanting to do something better. For example, I know that I could have made ‘Lonerism 2.0’ in a day, but it wouldn’t have satisfied me. Kevin Parker Read Quote
After my grunge phase, I started opening my horizons and listening to more electronic stuff. I got into Radiohead, specifically ‘Amnesiac’ – my brother gave me that album. Kevin Parker Read Quote
It’s a lot harder to reach people’s hearts than it is to reach people’s brains. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I love to be able to put my hands on a keyboard, to have a guitar and a bass within reach, as well as all the effects. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I’ve always argued that all Tame Impala melodies are pure pop. It’s just that ‘Lonerism,’ for example, is a completely rumbling, fuzzed out psychedelic rock album. But for me, it was just pop music produced the way that I like to produce it. Kevin Parker Read Quote
I’ve spent a lot of my life forcing myself to do the right thing, and nowadays, I’ve just forgotten about all that. It’s far more romantic just to let all your vices and fetishes come out and shine. Kevin Parker Read Quote
My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had ‘Bad’ on tape, and I remember listening to ‘Smooth Criminal’ and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn’t dancing, exactly – more like walking musically. Kevin Parker Read Quote
