100 Quotes by Rostam Batmanglij

I like there to be some secrets.

I can pass as a lot of things: people meet me and don't think I'm gay and speak about gay people in a certain way or they don't know I'm Middle Eastern and do the same.

I feel like I've had this ability to infiltrate, as an outsider and an insider, different groups.

I'm not interested in anyone who would want me for the wrong reasons.

I was fascinated by the word 'Rudy,' which is connected to the Jamaican term 'rude boy,' which migrated from Jamaica to London. I was also fascinated by that name, because it exists in Persian culture and Iranian culture. There is actually a place called Rudy in Iran, and there's Iranians that I know with the name Rudy.

When I work with other artists, I really want to bring out the most in their voices and I want to hold myself to the same standard.

There's a bunch of rules that I want to break. I have a rule-breaking streak.

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

On the song 'Step,' the chorus is Ezra is singing into my laptop with the laptop microphone, and you can hear the trains going by my apartment, but we liked the quality of that recording.