Mark Foster Quotes
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Music is the great equalizer.
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I don't like to write the same song twice.
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Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.
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One thing about Foster the People is that it's taking pieces of a lot of different genres of music and kind of melding them together.
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We've grown up on the Beach Boys and the Beatles and Blur and Bowie and the Clash. Also E.L.O. and Hall and Oates. Those are all artists who write songs that are accessible but still left of center. It's intelligent pop. There's still something different and complex about it.
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I'm not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on 'American Idol.'
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I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be in company with because their songwriting is intelligent, and yet you don't need to be a musical genius to pick it up.
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I didn't want to be a soul singer.
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There were times when I was terrified to go to school because it felt like a jail sentence.
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I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.
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Writing for other people is easier than writing for myself - it's not as personal.
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I love to honour people and to write positive songs about them.
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Through technology and social media, we're able to create an identity online that shows people the face that we want them to see and rather than who they really are.
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If I was 13 years old and Kurt Cobain tweeted me some advice or even just said hi, my whole world would be affected by that.
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I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like 'Pumped Up Kicks,' and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic West Coast Beach Boys recreation band. That's not the type of writer I am. Once I try one style, I move on.
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It's the meanest thing to abuse your power as a songwriter. To write pointedly about someone... it's kind of unfair to use them. They can't answer you or have a rebuttal.
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I had really bad grades in high school and didn't want to go to college, and my dad said, 'Why don't you move to L.A. or New York and pursue music? You've always been good at it.' It was the first thing that made sense to me and... It was the right move.
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We need to do a better job of loving each other beyond race, beyond belief, beyond our difference.
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When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.
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I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.
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'Torches' opened a lot of doors. Ultimately, it turned into an experience to be reckoned with.
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Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically.
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If I'm with people who are really positive and go with the flow, that's when the best ideas come out for me.
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I feel like kids are getting more and more used to communicating through a glass screen than they are face-to-face, and that worries me a little.