“A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it.” Quote by Alexis Taylor
“People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don't know how to write a song about teenage heartbreak anymore.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingFirstsLongTwoSongTermKnow HowIssuesMeetingsClubsLong TermTeenageExplosivesEdgy Author:Joe Goddard
“I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.” LittlesStillsDifficultWonderfulTeenageSymphony Author:Joe Goddard
“There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.” StuffModernPopsPop MusicMaterialistic Author:Joe Goddard
“It makes me happy to talk about some fundamentally good things.” Good ThingsMake Me Happy Author:Joe Goddard
“The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively.” SongInspiredChemistryResponding Author:Joe Goddard
“You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.” GivingTryingEndsReasonReason For Everything Author:Alexis Taylor
“I like listening to music on a Discman, where the CD spins, and the fact that it's weird to listen to something on a Discman when most people have an iPod, even though those have an internal hard drive that's spinning, too.” PeopleHardFactsListeningInternalsListening To MusicSpinningCdsIpods Author:Alexis Taylor
“I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.” SoundRealizingNiceListening To MusicFormatMp3 Author:Alexis Taylor
“I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to mourn the loss of - everyone's already written them off.” FactsLossWrittenMournCdsNostalgicVinylOutdated Author:Alexis Taylor
“I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.” IdeasPassingPassingsCdsPlaying AroundPassing By Author:Alexis Taylor