Kevin Parker

Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or…

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

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

— 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

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

— Kevin Parker

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…

— Kevin Parker

I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.

— Kevin Parker

I used to hate iPhones. Before I got an iPhone, I used to be like, 'What are you doing, sitting there on…

— Kevin Parker

For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an…

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

If I'm recording a song, and it's kind of fuzzed out, but I've got this super candy melody, I feel nothing but…

— Kevin Parker

For me, I'm just too bad at remembering the details of lengths of parts of songs, so if we had backing tracks,…

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

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

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

— Kevin Parker

I'd say most of the rest of the world are bigger Beatles fans than me. They'd know more of the songs and…

— Kevin Parker

Grunge gave me a sense of identity, and I remember really associating with 'Silverchair,' who were these chilled-out Australian teenagers. The fact…

— Kevin Parker

I'm always working on new music.

— 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…

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker