Porter Robinson Quotes

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'

When I hear a great country song, I get chills and I want to cry. You feel something. And just sometimes that magic and the stars line up somehow or another, and it creates something that's really, really, really special.

I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

I have a candle permanently on my Jacuzzi because I love me some candles.

I write emotional music.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

'I Got a Feeling' by the Black Eyed Peas - Reminds me of happy, fun times with my friends and makes me want to jump around.

I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it's sentimental - and Disney is sentimental. It's subtle and it's low-key and it's just a sweet reminder of sweetness.

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

Most Billy Joel songs make me want to cry a little.

When I start my mornings, I put some essential oils in a diffuser; it might be orange blossom or jasmine to energize and spruce me up or lavender at night to really calm me down.

Music has brought me a lot of emotional moments.

I dwell in the past.

A night out isn't just chaos and hedonism. It can be beautiful as well and there's a sadness to the end of it.

With each song, I'm trying to go after that feeling of elation, of euphoria. It's not the only feeling in the world; it's just the one I thought I should try to focus on and find the most effective way of getting there.

I called it 'Cloud 9' because that's the place I want to take people when they are listening to my music. It's also where I am when I make music.