Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

If you're ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you're good to go.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

I've always thought it'd be nice to be seaweed, kind of just floating about.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

Well I am a Gemini.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

As I get older, there's this new realisation and it's almost like a relief, and that is that I can never be who I once was, but only who I want to become.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

Well, love is a difficult thing to hold on to. It's a slippery little beast. It will hold you and then it will elude you at any moment.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

Caracas was a crazy place in the early Nineties. For instance, when I was 11 years old, I pierced my ear. No big deal, right? But everyone was so scandalised that they shut down the school.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

I'm interested in Qawwali and the blues.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

I know that there are energies that vibrate frequencies that are so subtle you could say that they exist in a different territory or realm or sphere, and people mistake these frequencies for ghosts.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

In the next life what would my career be? Oh, easy. Dried persimmon dealer.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

I want to do a record with Adam Green of all German schlager songs.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

I want to say that Beck is incredible. He is an art machine.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

Leigh Bowery is a legend. Everybody loves Leigh Bowery. Everybody should love Leigh Bowery.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

Canada has really grown and grown as this unexplored and very mysterious and exotic place to me.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

Of all my childhood books, 'The Giving Tree and Hope for the Flowers' really did change my early world, but after reading 'Momo' in my 30s, I thought, Ahhhhhh, this is the one book I wish I had read as a kid! Then reread at every subsequent chapter of my life.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

As an adolescent I saw the Specials at the Glass House in Pomona, and that was life changing. I dressed the part - except not well, because it was a thrift suit. I looked more like David Byrne than a rudeboy; I still have a hard time finding suits that fit me. But I had my braces and I had my Docs. It was unbelievable.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

My gadabout days are over.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else's expectations or lack of expectations.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

Grizzly Bear's 'Knife' is one of the best videos of all time - everything Encyclopedia Pictura has done is really incredible.

Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart

I sit around and try to play along to certain songs that I really love. It helps you explore new territory.