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I'll write songs wherever I am.
I'm always working on new music.
Tame Impala is kind of psych-pop.
I always manage to keep myself busy.
In high school, I was an absolute derelict.
'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.
I like a messy hotel room. It's a little slice of home.
To me, rock and roll is like an ethos or a state of mind.
For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.
It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.
Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.
I never know when a record is finished until it's almost finished.
I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.
I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.
I feel like music will be free sooner or later, and I think I'm all for it.
It's a lot harder to reach people's hearts than it is to reach people's brains.
My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn't dig that, so she left him.
Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me.
I don't think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own.
The more I question myself about why I think pop is taboo, the more I realize it's not.
I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.
With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.
Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.
I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.
I've always liked pop music. I love what it does to my brain, and I've shut it out for a long time.
The more confidence I get with making music, the more I feel like I can just rely on myself to fulfill me.
I didn't even know that small bands played in Las Vegas. I just thought it was, like, Celine Dion and stuff.
In the end, I'm lucky enough to travel the world and make albums and not have to worry about not having a job.
The way I do it is there's never recording 'sessions.' One finishes, the next one starts. It's just continuous.
I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.
I make music that surfers dig, but, like Brian Wilson in the Beach Boys, I'm the dude who never gets on the board.
When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.
Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.
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.
Nothing matches the sheer euphoria of discovering a new melody or a new batch of chords that just come out of nowhere.
What do you call that when you add '-ism' on the end of a word? What is that process? 'Wordism'? Something like that, yeah.
In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.
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.
Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.
For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.
Some of my most important musical experiences were from a burnt CD with songs my friend downloaded for me at a terrible digital quality.
When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never aware of it at the time. I just make something.
I wouldn't say making psychedelic music is my focus. That's not the modus operandi for Tame Impala. It's about making music that moves people.
For me, I'm just too bad at remembering the details of lengths of parts of songs, so if we had backing tracks, it would be a recipe for disaster.
There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.
I've played festivals in Australia. If it's a dance music festival or mainstream festival, there's maybe, like, 10 percent who pay attention to the music.
It's largely a misconception that Tame Impala is a band. We play as a band on stage, but it's really not how it is at all on the album. The album is just me.
For 'Lonerism,' I really wanted make a non-psychedelic record. That's why the dominant instrument is the synthesiser, but maybe it didn't quite turn out that way.
Sometimes you really rely on the audience to have a good time playing live, and sometimes you could have zero people or a thousand, and you'd feel exactly the same.
I don't like the idea that I'm a one-trick pony, even if I am! No matter what else I do, I have to make sure that 'Elephant' isn't Tame Impala's biggest song anywhere.