Kevin Parker

I'm always working on new music.

— Kevin Parker

In high school, I was an absolute derelict.

— Kevin Parker

I like a messy hotel room. It's a little slice of home.

— Kevin Parker

I don't really hear the Beatles when I listen to my own music.

— Kevin Parker

It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.

— Kevin Parker

To me, rock and roll is like an ethos or a state of mind.

— Kevin Parker

I don't think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own.

— Kevin Parker

It's a lot harder to reach people's hearts than it is to reach people's brains.

— Kevin Parker

Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.

— Kevin Parker

In the end, I'm lucky enough to travel the world and make albums and not have to worry about not having a…

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My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn't dig that, so she left him.

— Kevin Parker

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

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I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.

— Kevin Parker

The more I question myself about why I think pop is taboo, the more I realize it's not.

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The first time someone asked us for an autograph was the moment we realized we were doing something that most people spend…

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I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same…

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Michael Jackson's one of my favorite artists of my whole life. In fact, I think he is my favorite. It's one of…

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I've always had these morals I've sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and…

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I don't like the idea that I'm a one-trick pony, even if I am! No matter what else I do, I have…

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I wanted to make something that, from the sound of it, could be down at the club. I just realised that I'd…

— Kevin Parker

I've always made music on my own, but I didn't think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had…

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I've spent a lot of my life forcing myself to do the right thing, and nowadays, I've just forgotten about all that.…

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My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal'…

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At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around…

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If someone says, 'Hey man, I love your album, it really got me through a breakup, but I downloaded it for free,'…

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My brain has a weird way of turning pressure into other things. I make a point to myself of shrugging it off…

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It's funny how concert dreams are such a recurring thing among musicians. It's like how everyone has that dream of their teeth…

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I used to think interacting with people in the audience, touching people in the crowd, was a total ego-based thing. I never…

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Even if people say you look cool and you did well, it's extremely cringey to watch yourself rocking out. It's like listening…

— Kevin Parker

I love the Beatles, but I don't listen to them at all regularly. Most of my friends are bigger Beatles fans than…

— Kevin Parker

I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the…

— Kevin Parker

The more confidence I get with making music, the more I feel like I can just rely on myself to fulfill me.

— Kevin Parker

I feel like music will be free sooner or later, and I think I'm all for it.

— Kevin Parker

I didn't even know that small bands played in Las Vegas. I just thought it was, like, Celine Dion and stuff.

— Kevin Parker

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my…

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I've always argued that all Tame Impala melodies are pure pop. It's just that 'Lonerism,' for example, is a completely rumbling, fuzzed…

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My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make…

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Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art…

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I have almost no memory of my parents ever speaking to each other. They split up on bad terms. I assumed that's…

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Some of my most important musical experiences were from a burnt CD with songs my friend downloaded for me at a terrible…

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