Tame Impala Quotes
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I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in Australia, half the album in Paris.
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The worst time for me is in the final few hours of taking a track that you've worked on for two years and bouncing it down to the final stereo mix. The overwhelming emotion for me is complete and utter fear that I've made a mistake. I'm scared. Afterward, I obsess endlessly about it.
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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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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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The way I do it is there's never recording 'sessions.' One finishes, the next one starts. It's just continuous.
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I like a messy hotel room. It's a little slice of home.
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There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.
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I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.
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I've always liked pop music. I love what it does to my brain, and I've shut it out for a long time.
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The first time someone asked us for an autograph was the moment we realized we were doing something that most people spend their teenage years dreaming about, for sure.
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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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It's a lot harder to reach people's hearts than it is to reach people's brains.
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For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.
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I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.
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I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.
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There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.
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If someone says, 'Hey man, I love your album, it really got me through a breakup, but I downloaded it for free,' I'll be like, 'Good! That's good!' Maybe he didn't have the money for the album, but if he still listened to it, and it's an important part of his life, that's all I can ask for. I don't want his twenty bucks.
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I'll write songs wherever I am.
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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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'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.
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My brain has a weird way of turning pressure into other things. I make a point to myself of shrugging it off - of going the other way and doing something for myself, wanting to do something better. For example, I know that I could have made 'Lonerism 2.0' in a day, but it wouldn't have satisfied me.
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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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Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.
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I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.