Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

The one thing you can't control is what comes after what you release.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

I think not having come from the DJ world was an asset to me at first because I didn't have some of the habits other DJs had, and I think in a way that set me apart.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

The DJ role, it's never been a big thing for me.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

If an artist I liked disowned songs that meant a lot to me, I would be pretty hurt by that.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

I think that my biggest influences are electronic acts. Daft Punk is probably my number 1, then Kanye West would be number 2 after that.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

So, the concept was a single-stage festival, and I open and close the festival to encourage people to stay for all of the other artists.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

I wanted what I was doing to be really true to me and my tastes. That's what 'Worlds' was, me taking a break from what I was doing and doing something that was honest, authentic and real.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

I came into having an artist's career in this very sheepish and directionless way. It's hard to explain, but I was 18 years old and I was ready to go to college; that was the next step for me. Then suddenly I had a song that blew up... and I had this artist's career and I was on tour with these big names and I didn't know what I was doing.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

I was still on track to go UNC at Chapel Hill, I had no plans to be a musician. It wasn't even a goal of mine. Then I had this song that blew up and went viral and suddenly I found myself playing shows and having this music career.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

Virtual Self' was me trying to paint a picture of a very foggy, distorted memory that I had of electronic music on the internet.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

If I could turn it on like a faucet then I think it would be kind of unearned. I feel like you need to struggle a little bit to make anything good.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

I like to shower for a really long time; that's a distraction-free zone for me.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

Electronic music was this super cool thing to me my whole life.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

Virtual Self' combines a lot of unlike elements - trance, jungle, slowed-down breakbeats.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

I'm mostly known for writing electro and aggressive bangery house music. But before I started making electro, and while I was making electro, this sort of gushy, make-the-ravers-cry sort of sentimentality is so important to me.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

When I'm making sentimental trancey fluffiness, I like to have some equally saccharine aromas filling the room.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

Yeah, I've always wondered what it would be like to make music that's not nostalgic at all, and it's really, really hard for me to imagine.

Porter Robinson
Porter Robinson

I want my music to be really big. I have no interest in DIY Brooklyn; I don't want to be a small indie band.