The thing I love about car design is that it’s sculpture everybody appreciates, everybody has access to. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
There’s a joy I get from collaborating with other artists, and there’s a joy I get from making songs on my own. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
There is a sense of tranquility that I think people can get from being in an organized group, where a singular leader handles the responsibilities of individual thinking. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I think when I work with artists, I’m at their service, and I’m at the service of either their vision or a vision that we find together and we share. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I’ve had experiences where my life will try to tell me something in a dream and sometimes it’s something I’m not ready to hear. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
The original ‘Don’t Let It Get to You’ started with a beat. The drums came first. All the musical and lyrical elements were written over those drums. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I’d like to make an album with Slack one day. I’d like to use it as a collaborative tool. I know about it because I have friends that work in tech, and I guess you can use it in any job. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I think that all music is inherently political, and, at the same time, I’m interested in the politics of inclusion not exclusion. So I think that my goal is to make music that anybody can hear and feel moved by. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I can pass as a lot of things: people meet me and don’t think I’m gay and speak about gay people in a certain way or they don’t know I’m Middle Eastern and do the same. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
