Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

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

— 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

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

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

It's largely a misconception that Tame Impala is a band. We play as a band on stage, but it's really not how…

— Kevin Parker

Whatever it is that my heart wants, I'll do it, which is different than I used to be. I used to tell…

— 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

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

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'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

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

— Kevin Parker

Tame Impala has two lives. One is the album, which is like a producer, and the other life is like a band:…

— Kevin Parker

That's how a lot of Tame Impala songs start out - as ideas for songs I could potentially give to someone else.…

— 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

I've always loved listening to music on my own, but there's another side of me that is just fascinated by... like Goa…

— Kevin Parker

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

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

— Kevin Parker

Once I've got something that I feel is strong, if I get long enough to think about it, it'll turn into something.…

— Kevin Parker

The worst time for me is in the final few hours of taking a track that you've worked on for two years…

— Kevin Parker

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

— 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

Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me.

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.

— 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

I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

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

— Kevin Parker

Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

— 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

After my grunge phase, I started opening my horizons and listening to more electronic stuff. I got into Radiohead, specifically 'Amnesiac' -…

— 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

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'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