Kevin Parker Quotes

Kevin Parker

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 20, 1986

Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.

Kevin Parker

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

Kevin Parker

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

Kevin Parker

I guess I'm not saying that I think music should be free, but I do think that if people can get it for free, there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. It's kind of a waste of energy to try and force them to pay for it if they don't have to.

Kevin Parker

I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.

Kevin Parker

I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same time, making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally. Just like a brain process.

Kevin Parker

I always manage to keep myself busy.

Kevin Parker

What do you call that when you add '-ism' on the end of a word? What is that process? 'Wordism'? Something like that, yeah.

Kevin Parker

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

Kevin Parker

I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.

Kevin Parker

The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it's happened to me more than once, it's probably happened to other people.

Kevin Parker

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.

Kevin Parker

After my grunge phase, I started opening my horizons and listening to more electronic stuff. I got into Radiohead, specifically 'Amnesiac' - my brother gave me that album.

Kevin Parker

I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in Australia, half the album in Paris.

Kevin Parker

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

Kevin Parker

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.

Kevin Parker

I've always made music on my own, but I didn't think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had to pretend it was a band.

Kevin Parker

In high school, I was an absolute derelict.

Kevin Parker

When I became a 'rock musician,' I assumed pop music was easy to write and that interesting rock music, or alternative music, was hard. It was only later I realised that writing a pop song is the hardest thing musically.

Kevin Parker

With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.

Kevin Parker