Porter Robinson

“It might be interesting to people to say that I would do something with Taylor Swift, but the reality is, it's so not on my list of things to do.”

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

“I've got a hundred thousand things on my mind that are taking precedence over trying to make pop collaborations.”

“I wanted 'Second Sky' to be my way of recommending truly good music to my audience that I think is worthy of their time.”

“My studio was lo-fi by necessity; I was fourteen with no reliable income.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“EDM is very functional. It's meant to make people jump up and down and go crazy and it's real good at that. I just think in terms of expression, it's very very limiting.”

“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.”

“The anonymity of the internet has been completely abandoned - everything's so tied to your identity and sense of self now. It's hard for me to see that changing, but that's why I wrote a love letter to something that once was.”

“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.”

“It was more than enough, but I'm completely satisfied that 'Virtual Self' got nominated for the Grammy. That is a complete victory for the project in my mind and anything else is just bonus.”

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

“Language' is, I think, my favorite song that I've ever written.”

“If you trust your instincts and it doesn't turn out right, OK. But if you compromise and defer to what somebody else is telling you and it doesn't work out, that feeling gnaws at me.”

“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.”

“There are a lot of people who wonder why Japan is a pretty consistent influence in my music, and I think it's because the reason I started writing - my intro to electronic music was Japanese music.”

“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.”

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