100 Quotes by Rostam Batmanglij

The whole point of Lady Gaga is that anyone can do it. A few years ago she was a nobody. She talks about how it's important for people to know that by sheer force of will they can bring about anything they want in their lives.

I guess my first instrument was the recorder when I was about five or six.

I started playing guitar when I was 14.

What's interesting about Vampire Weekend, everyone in the band, except for me, had a band in high school in which they were the lead singers. And I'm the one who never had that experience.

It's interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was drawn to it.

I always want to be somewhat uncomfortable. But at the same time I want to make music that you react to viscerally.

The first Vampire Weekend record was the first full-length album that I produced.

Whenever I work on a project I put all of myself into it.

I don't have to just have one kind of life. I can have several different creative lives.