Being like 14 and 15 years old, listening to trance music in my home, I just had this fantasy of going to these big clubs and going to these massives, and just hearing this gorgeous, delicate music. Porter Robinson Read Quote
There’s a really high emphasis on having good taste in my household and having nuanced opinions. We’re always critically analyzing stuff. Porter Robinson Read Quote
My relationship with my brothers… it’s almost weird. We’ve never fought, we finish each other’s sentences, but not in a creepy way. We talk about the things that we love and share music with each other. Porter Robinson Read Quote
The warmest place I’ve ever been is my home here in Chapel Hill. It’s an oasis of comfort and joy for me. Porter Robinson Read Quote
I’m releasing more music as Virtual Self, I’m definitely going to be touring Virtual Self. Porter Robinson Read Quote
I’m never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see ‘Virtual Self’ as more of a tangent. Porter Robinson Read Quote
I spend a good deal of time doing, for anxiety what’s known as exposure therapy where basically you’re supposed to confront things that cause you anxiety and learn to tolerate. It’s all about learning to tolerate discomfort rather that avoiding anything that might make you feel uncomfortable. Porter Robinson Read Quote
I think it’s important to form a connection with an audience to a point, but I also feel like there’s an instructive element to what you’re doing. And I think it’s necessary to challenge people. Porter Robinson Read Quote
If you trust your instincts and it doesn’t turn out right, OK. But if you compromise and defer to what somebody else is telling you and it doesn’t work out, that feeling gnaws at me. Porter Robinson Read Quote
Toplines usually suck. I’ll send a song to a band or artist whose entire body of work I love and I’ll ask them to do a vocal for one of my songs and I’ll get it back and I’ll hate it so much. It might have to do with my possessiveness over my music. Porter Robinson Read Quote
