Quotes from Chet Faker

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

I'd wear all APC if I could afford it and wasn't embarrassing to go head-to-toe in one brand.

I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'

I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.

I think diva is an inevitable outcome of the industry, and I don't think it reflects on the person at all. You take a normal human being, and basically, for 24 hours, seven days a week, apart from sleeping, you introduce them to places and things almost every minute that are brand new.

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.

It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!

When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a musician. I can't commit to anything unless I love it.

Sometimes I have to deal with trolls, and I just block them. But most of the time, Twitter's heaps of fun, actually.

I think that connection with humans is so important. Sometimes I'll do this monologue and talk to the crowd, like, 'Come on, let's really connect here.' I don't think a lot of people understand it's a two-way exchange. Some people go to a show and are like, 'Yeah, you make me feel.' That's not how it works.

Ultimately, I love making music more than anything. And I want to do that for ever. I don't want be on the top. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.

In my eyes, I think it's important that if you're doing something you're proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just for the sheer reason that there are musicians out there who are manufacturing emotions that aren't genuine.

I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.

I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

Most of my inspiration comes from mistakes, so every time I make a massive mistake, that usually affects me so much that I have to process that via song.

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.