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I didn't even know that small bands played in Las Vegas. I just thought it was, like, Celine Dion and stuff.
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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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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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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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I have almost no memory of my parents ever speaking to each other. They split up on bad terms. I assumed that's what family life was like. Just essentially a soap opera.
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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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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 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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Tame Impala is kind of psych-pop.
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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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'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.
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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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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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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 used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.
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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'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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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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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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I feel like music will be free sooner or later, and I think I'm all for it.
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I always manage to keep myself busy.
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I wouldn't say making psychedelic music is my focus. That's not the modus operandi for Tame Impala. It's about making music that moves people.
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I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.
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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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