My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn't dig that, so she left him.

I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.

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.

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

When I became a 'rock musician,' I assumed pop music was easy to write and that interesting rock music, or alternative music, was hard. It was only later I realised that writing a pop song is the hardest thing musically.

With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.

For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.

It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.

I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.

The worst time for me is in the final few hours of taking a track that you've worked on for two years and bouncing it down to the final stereo mix. The overwhelming emotion for me is complete and utter fear that I've made a mistake. I'm scared. Afterward, I obsess endlessly about 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.

Bands can become absolutely huge and actually be pretty terrible musicians, and bands can be the most amazing songwriters and musicians in the world and never play for more than 10 people. With that in mind, getting successful doesn't mean anything.

I didn't even know that small bands played in Las Vegas. I just thought it was, like, Celine Dion and stuff.

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.

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.

I feel like music will be free sooner or later, and I think I'm all for it.

I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

I'm always working on new music.

I write songs every day, but only a few of them get finished.

I never know when a record is finished until it's almost finished.

If I'm recording a song, and it's kind of fuzzed out, but I've got this super candy melody, I feel nothing but freedom that I can just sing over the top, and it will be appreciated. It won't be like, 'What is he doing?'

For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop song.

I love the Beatles, but I don't listen to them at all regularly. Most of my friends are bigger Beatles fans than I am. I respect them, and I love them - 'Abbey Road' is probably one of my favorite albums, but I don't think I've ever listened to the 'White Album' the whole way through.

I'd say most of the rest of the world are bigger Beatles fans than me. They'd know more of the songs and more of the lyrics - I don't really know that stuff. I just respect them.

I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.

'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.

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.

One of my mottos for 'Currents' was 'Give the song what it deserves.' How would this song flourish? If the song could tell me what it wants, what can I give it? I tried not to dictate it with any sensible or logical decisions.

Even if people say you look cool and you did well, it's extremely cringey to watch yourself rocking out. It's like listening to your own voice on an answering machine times a hundred, because you're hearing your voice through a microphone outside of a PA at a hundred decibels.

Whatever it is that my heart wants, I'll do it, which is different than I used to be. I used to tell my heart what it wanted.

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.

If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.

Maryland is one of the greatest schools that we have in this country.

I don't want to be characterized as the big booster guy.

We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.

Every great brand is like a great story.

If I had been out in the industry instead of being a college kid who had an idea for another T-shirt, I would have been too scared to do anything.

The world cannot continue to build larger health care systems where you just sit around and wait for people to get sick.

We don't care which products you like, but you should be using UnderArmour.com - which is now MapMyFitness - and having a reason to visit us every day.

There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

We don't tell a 17-year-old kid that Nike sucks, because the fact of the matter is, Nike doesn't suck. They're actually very good at what they do.

There is some little boy and some little girl out there, somewhere, who believe that when they put Under Armour on, they can do just a little bit more.

I can't imagine trying to operate a company banking on the fact that my logo is cooler than somebody else's logo.

I don't believe in flagship retail, because the definition of flagship retail is that it's a marketing expense, and it's going to lose money.

The ability to touch people and literally change lives is incredibly relevant in a consumer-products company.

The best merchants in the world aren't the ones predicting what's cool next; we're the ones dictating what's cool next.

Great brands are meant to be great aggregators.

My kids have been watching a lot of 'My Little Pony,' and it's rubbing off on me.

The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.