100 Quotes by Rostam Batmanglij

I think that for a lot of us gay people, we do feel that pop is our music. We identify with it and its iconography, and that's been a tradition.

I'll probably continue writing songs about New York until I die.

I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.

Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine, whether it was part of a collaboration with people.

I don't believe in expertise. I don't believe that a film critic feels a film more deeply than any person who walks into a theater. I don't believe that.

It's always my mission to try to do something that hasn't been done before, whether that's musically, lyrically or in terms of mixing.

I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In some ways, I have looked to his career as a model for my own.

I'm as guilty as anyone else of listening to music track by track.

What I love is the openness of collaboration.