Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens. "

Related Quotes:

" I basically work all the time. "

" We don't put limits on ourselves. "

" I used to do this huge jump off the drum riser. I had a good way of landing so I wouldn't hurt myself, but then one time, I landed on my elbow. "

" It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you're talking about is work, and you never leave that space. "

Working Together

" You can hear 'Human Nature' all over our song 'Elevate.' It's an amazing song. That hooky arpeggio in the beginning is great. Unlike most Michael Jackson ballads, even though I'm a huge Michael Jackson fan, this song is kind of restrained. It's not a huge, crazy song you can dance to - it's just this beautiful piece of music. "

" It's important to let things go. "

" I think the job of the first single is kind of like being a diplomat for a country. "

" It sounds kind of cliche, and a lot of people say it about our music, but I think a good place to hear our music for the first time is on vacation, or somewhere warm, on the beach or something like that. "

" The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music. "

" I had to embrace just basically writing and recording on my laptop. On long drives through the Rockies, I would take my laptop and mess around with ideas and make rough sketches of songs. "

" When you work together in a creative way, you have to be less selfish about your ideas and learn to let both parties feel valued. Of course, that's also a really great quality to have in a relationship, too. "

" We have such an energetic live show. We have so much fun onstage. We swap instruments. We might possibly be the sweatiest band in the business. "

" Nothing beats looking out to a sweaty, packed house full of fans. "

" I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea. "

" Images and music are very connected. "

" When I left the country to study in the U.K., I suddenly realized, and I'm still realizing, how much other stuff is out there - like My Bloody Valentine, who millions of people are passionate about, but they're still considered an 'underground' band. "

" On the first recording, I wasn't singing out that much; I was shy with my singing. "

" With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right. "

" I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years of my life there. Being a kid, my early musical experiences were there. "

" I feel like Hawaiian shirts have definitely made a comeback. "

" I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain things in your life, and as you get older, you think about your parents getting older. "

" At a festival, some people are just there because they're waiting for, like, Calvin Harris to come on later. "

" I guess you could say it's one of the great equalizers: that it just feels good to be bad. "

" When I was a kid, pre-1994 was still apartheid, so we didn't get a lot the subversive music from the States or from the U.K. A lot of the music we would get was the poppiest pop music, so I've never really had a bad association it. "

" My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something. "

" Even though we're really, really happy with what we do, sometimes I think - as an adult, you think, 'Should I be more responsible with my life choices?' "

" In the past, I never wrote any love songs. That was not my thing. "

" I will readily confess that I'm a coffee addict. "

" I like my music to transport people somewhere. "

" When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it. "