During ‘Torches,’ I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics. Mark Foster Read Quote
Every single song on ‘Torches’ was a little self-contained pop song, so there wasn’t any fat on the songs; there wasn’t a lot to cut. Mark Foster Read Quote
Going out and volunteering sounds simple, but many people don’t volunteer because they don’t know where to start. Mark Foster Read Quote
In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off. Mark Foster Read Quote
I wrote ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand the psychology behind it because it was foreign to me. Mark Foster Read Quote
One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was ‘brave.’ To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation. Mark Foster Read Quote
I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be in company with because their songwriting is intelligent, and yet you don’t need to be a musical genius to pick it up. Mark Foster Read Quote
When you’re underwater with goggles on, a couple of your senses are taken away, and it becomes this purely visual thing. It’s just you and yourself. Mark Foster Read Quote