Australian - Musician | January 20, 1986 -
What do you call that when you add '-ism' on the end of a word? What is that process? 'Wordism'? Something like that, yeah.
Kevin Parker
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My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn't dig that, so she left him.
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I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.
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The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it's happened to me more than once, it's probably happened to other people.
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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.
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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.
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My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.
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Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.
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I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in Australia, half the album in Paris.
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In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.
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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.
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That's how a lot of Tame Impala songs start out - as ideas for songs I could potentially give to someone else. I think of them with a different persona in mind; it's just a subconscious way of not being bound by what you think you are as an artist.
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