I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' 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 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.

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

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?'

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

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

I'm always working on new music.

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

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

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

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.

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.