114 Quotes by Kevin Parker

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.

In the end, I'm lucky enough to travel the world and make albums and not have to worry about not having a job.

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

The way I do it is there's never recording 'sessions.' One finishes, the next one starts. It's just continuous.

My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn't dig that, so she left him.

I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

I grew up in the grunge era. I've always resisted the idea of being part of a machine, wanting just to be an artist in my own right. But at some point, I just realized shutting things out took more energy than just letting it in.

I used to think interacting with people in the audience, touching people in the crowd, was a total ego-based thing. I never realized how fulfilling it would be. It's more about being on the receiving end - it's people giving. That's a powerful realization.