I'm trying to get to a point where I tell people, if you want to get in touch with me, please don't rely on email. I don't want to be a slave to it.
It's easier for me to remember things based on the releases of albums. The year is such an arbitrary thing.
I feel like there's no one kind of person who comes to my shows. Sometimes I've been surprised by the people who will stop me on the street to tell me that they're into my music.
I don't think teenagers in 2017 identify with heterosexuality, and that's a positive.
I think that for a lot of us gay people, we do feel that pop is our music. We identify with it and its iconography, and that's been a tradition.
I'll probably continue writing songs about New York until I die.
I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.
Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine, whether it was part of a collaboration with people.
Well, I think that I have a complicated relationship with whiteness because oftentimes, I pass as white, and I recognize that. I would be disingenuous to pretend that I don't pass as white.
I don't believe in expertise. I don't believe that a film critic feels a film more deeply than any person who walks into a theater. I don't believe that.
It's always my mission to try to do something that hasn't been done before, whether that's musically, lyrically or in terms of mixing.
I'm as guilty as anyone else of listening to music track by track.
The whole point of Lady Gaga is that anyone can do it. A few years ago she was a nobody. She talks about how it's important for people to know that by sheer force of will they can bring about anything they want in their lives.
Some of the journalists who've ended up writing about our band - and this is disappointing to say - have a very narrow outlook. And because of that they fundamentally misunderstand us.
I guess my first instrument was the recorder when I was about five or six.
I started playing guitar when I was 14.
What's interesting about Vampire Weekend, everyone in the band, except for me, had a band in high school in which they were the lead singers. And I'm the one who never had that experience.
It's interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was drawn to it.
I always want to be somewhat uncomfortable. But at the same time I want to make music that you react to viscerally.
The first Vampire Weekend record was the first full-length album that I produced.
