Kevin Parker Quotes

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

I've never really had the urge to make an English album.

I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

I really believe that we're a studio-based band, and I have always thought that.

I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

It was important for the first piece of original music that I release to have a timeless feel because that's the type of music I want to make.

I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce - maybe it's a Southern bounce or something.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

I try to make explosive and catchy music, haha.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

I made hardcore music and that came kind of easy - it was what I knew. But it was a challenge for me to make a big pop tune.

What do I call my music? Beats with melodies.

My solo music started as a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an instrument, without any outside dialogue.

When you put the guitars over the 808, it just makes it grittier and grimier. It's just different.