Devendra Banhart

You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I…

— Devendra Banhart

Well I am a Gemini.

— Devendra Banhart

You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.

— Devendra Banhart

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the…

— Devendra Banhart

A soul singer is always singing to their crowd. They're always singing about their woes to you. And I really appreciate that…

— Devendra Banhart

Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly…

— Devendra Banhart

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

— Devendra Banhart

Generally, I can't really do much without music playing - even writing or thinking. Peace and quiet means putting on a song.

— Devendra Banhart

As I get older, there's this new realisation and it's almost like a relief, and that is that I can never be…

— Devendra Banhart

Dad had four world records, and they happened to be Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Ali Farka Toure. I tried singing like…

— Devendra Banhart

For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.

— Devendra Banhart

I hate having my photograph taken and I try to keep that in mind when I'm photographing other people. But the best…

— Devendra Banhart

The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best…

— Devendra Banhart

Well, love is a difficult thing to hold on to. It's a slippery little beast. It will hold you and then it…

— Devendra Banhart

It's all about sensitivity. If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life.

— Devendra Banhart

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand,…

— Devendra Banhart

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

— Devendra Banhart

I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.

— Devendra Banhart

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it.

— Devendra Banhart

I don't even know what a hippy is. I mean, hippy is an evolution of the Sixties movement. A time when people…

— Devendra Banhart

Leigh Bowery is a legend. Everybody loves Leigh Bowery. Everybody should love Leigh Bowery.

— Devendra Banhart

Canada has really grown and grown as this unexplored and very mysterious and exotic place to me.

— Devendra Banhart

Of all my childhood books, 'The Giving Tree and Hope for the Flowers' really did change my early world, but after reading…

— Devendra Banhart

I'm just trying to make rent and do my work.

— Devendra Banhart

I live in a total bubble where I assume everyone is super-liberal and democratic.

— Devendra Banhart