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.

Kevin Parker

Categorized in : You Myself Life Time

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

Kevin Parker

award more become like

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.

Kevin Parker

say music focus people

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

Kevin Parker

emotions become big blur

To me, rock and roll is like an ethos or a state of mind.

Kevin Parker

rock me rock-and-roll mind

I've always loved listening to music on my own, but there's another side of me that is just fascinated by... like Goa trance, for example - just a rave on a beach in India, you know? Where there's someone that's spinning the music, and it's just this free-flowing, continuous energy.

Kevin Parker

me you music beach

I've spent a lot of my life forcing myself to do the right thing, and nowadays, I've just forgotten about all that. It's far more romantic just to let all your vices and fetishes come out and shine.

Kevin Parker

my-life myself romantic life

I like a messy hotel room. It's a little slice of home.

Kevin Parker

like messy hotel home

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.

Kevin Parker

good man love life

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.

Kevin Parker

me you fear time

Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.

Kevin Parker

nothing new just melody

It's a lot harder to reach people's hearts than it is to reach people's brains.

Kevin Parker

hearts reach than people

I love to be able to put my hands on a keyboard, to have a guitar and a bass within reach, as well as all the effects.

Kevin Parker

reach guitar love hands

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.'

Kevin Parker

me you man identity

In high school, I was an absolute derelict.

Kevin Parker

absolute high high-school school

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.

Kevin Parker

down never dance people

Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

Kevin Parker

forgetting everything you music

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.

Kevin Parker

day myself me brain

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.

Kevin Parker

never music time love

For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.

Kevin Parker

alone me age people

I guess I'm not saying that I think music should be free, but I do think that if people can get it for free, there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. It's kind of a waste of energy to try and force them to pay for it if they don't have to.

Kevin Parker

think music energy people