132 Quotes by Devendra Banhart

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it’s going still.

Good art doesn’t really have an expiration date on it. That’s something to be happy about, if you’re making art.

When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I’m the one person that’s voting for that one.

I’m one of those people that if you’re told that if you put your hand in the fire, you’ll burn your hand, I won’t listen.

You’ve got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I’ve got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

Having friends who are records nerds – that’s the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

I see so many little boys I wanna marry, I see plenty little kids I’ve yet to have.