Kevin Parker Quotes
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I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.
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'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.
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I love the Beatles, but I don't listen to them at all regularly. Most of my friends are bigger Beatles fans than I am. I respect them, and I love them - 'Abbey Road' is probably one of my favorite albums, but I don't think I've ever listened to the 'White Album' the whole way through.
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I don't think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own.
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Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me.
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I've always made music on my own, but I didn't think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had to pretend it was a band.
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One of my mottos for 'Currents' was 'Give the song what it deserves.' How would this song flourish? If the song could tell me what it wants, what can I give it? I tried not to dictate it with any sensible or logical decisions.
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I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.
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With 'Innerspeaker' I was trying to do these hypnotic '60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like they were sampled. It was making electronic sampled music but using real instruments to do it.
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It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.
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In the end, I'm lucky enough to travel the world and make albums and not have to worry about not having a job.
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Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.
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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 turn out that way.
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I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.
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When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.
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Tame Impala is kind of psych-pop.
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At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.
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When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never aware of it at the time. I just make something.
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Grunge gave me a sense of identity, and I remember really associating with 'Silverchair,' who were these chilled-out Australian teenagers. The fact that they were teenagers was a big deal for me. It was like, 'Oh, man, you don't have to be a 30-year-old to do this.'
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I always manage to keep myself busy.
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The more confidence I get with making music, the more I feel like I can just rely on myself to fulfill me.
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I feel like music will be free sooner or later, and I think I'm all for it.
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I wanted to make something that, from the sound of it, could be down at the club. I just realised that I'd never heard Tame Impala played somewhere with a dance floor or where people were dancing.
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Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.