Kevin Parker

There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and…

— Kevin Parker

One of my mottos for 'Currents' was 'Give the song what it deserves.' How would this song flourish? If the song could…

— Kevin Parker

I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.

— Kevin Parker

I never know when a record is finished until it's almost finished.

— Kevin Parker

For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop…

— Kevin Parker

I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.

— Kevin Parker

I guess I'm not saying that I think music should be free, but I do think that if people can get it…

— Kevin Parker

With 'Innerspeaker' I was trying to do these hypnotic '60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like…

— Kevin Parker

I've always liked pop music. I love what it does to my brain, and I've shut it out for a long time.

— Kevin Parker

What do you call that when you add '-ism' on the end of a word? What is that process? 'Wordism'? Something like…

— Kevin Parker

Bands can become absolutely huge and actually be pretty terrible musicians, and bands can be the most amazing songwriters and musicians in…

— Kevin Parker

One of the first albums I can remember hearing was a Supertramp best of, with mostly 'Breakfast in America' songs on it.…

— Kevin Parker

Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.

— Kevin Parker

There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But…

— Kevin Parker

I always manage to keep myself busy.

— Kevin Parker

Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.

— Kevin Parker

The way I do it is there's never recording 'sessions.' One finishes, the next one starts. It's just continuous.

— Kevin Parker

I grew up in the grunge era. I've always resisted the idea of being part of a machine, wanting just to be…

— Kevin Parker

When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never…

— Kevin Parker

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

— Kevin Parker

I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

— Kevin Parker

For 'Lonerism,' I really wanted make a non-psychedelic record. That's why the dominant instrument is the synthesiser, but maybe it didn't quite…

— Kevin Parker

When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up…

— Kevin Parker

I've played festivals in Australia. If it's a dance music festival or mainstream festival, there's maybe, like, 10 percent who pay attention…

— Kevin Parker

'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.

— Kevin Parker