It’s interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was drawn to it. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I think that for a lot of us gay people, we do feel that pop is our music. We identify with it and its iconography, and that’s been a tradition. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I guess my first instrument was the recorder when I was about five or six. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I don’t think teenagers in 2017 identify with heterosexuality, and that’s a positive. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn’t identify as straight, as a person who grew up American. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
Films should involve a director’s idiosyncrasies as much as possible I think. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
Some of the journalists who’ve ended up writing about our band – and this is disappointing to say – have a very narrow outlook. And because of that they fundamentally misunderstand us. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
I never felt like there were things I couldn’t express lyrically in Vampire Weekend. I was always proud of everything that we wrote together. Rostam Batmanglij Read Quote
