114 Quotes by Kevin Parker

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.

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

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.

I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.

My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.

Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.

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.

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.

I don't really hear the Beatles when I listen to my own music.