Kevin Parker Quotes

Tame Impala is more about impact than innovation, sure, but the music still stuns on contact.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.

I made records purely for fun - songs that made you feel good. I left the message songs to people like John Lennon.

Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so much more. I never want to make music for any other reason.

I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.

Just make good music.

For me, piano is just where I started; I know where to go with it.

The way it always starts with me making my music is I will never, ever start with the production first. It's always me at the piano, fresh on the day. I never come with anything prepared.

I tried for a long time to make DJ-able dance tracks that were more specific to the stuff that I was playing. Ultimately, I found I wasn't really capable of doing that. The only type of music I was able to make that really made me feel something would just come straight from my heart or straight from whatever emotions I was feeling at that time.

When I started making music, I made music in a very commercial space and I didn't have room to really explore things on my own terms. It took me awhile to create a little bubble where I could explore other things, and new things. When I did that, my tools were songwriting and arranging.

To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything else, I think.

The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.

I no longer feel the pressure of trying to write hits for the radio anymore.

I always used to say I'm definitely not a straight-ahead jazz singer, because then there's people who would hear what I do and say, 'Is it jazz? I don't know...' Whatever it is, it really comes down to creating music that makes people feel something.

Getting to write a song with Steve Vai - he was my first support.

I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly.

We wanted to really push ourselves on 'Past Lives' to actually hold back sometimes, sing in falsetto, let the music open up and take its space.

My goal is to write catchy songs that make people feel something.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.