A biography for Porter Robinsonhasn’t been written yet.
“As much as early 2000s aesthetics are something I was pining for and very much love, I would occasionally struggle to find one singular image or one singular site that summed up all of my memories really well.”
“One thing that scares me a little bit is that I want people to like my music, but I think a lot of what I like about my own music are these references to things that people don't share nostalgia with me on.”
“I'm releasing more music as Virtual Self, I'm definitely going to be touring Virtual Self.”
“I'm so grateful for archives like Wayback Machine, who for 15 years have been creating snapshots of almost the entire web.”
“It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.”
“I played video games for years. I immersed myself in them. They're so beautiful. They have these gorgeous imaginary landscapes. And they were just very dear to me.”
“There's so many things that can go wrong, and if I'm merely playing and not hosting a festival, none of those things reflect on me.”
“When I'm writing good music and I'm caffeinated, I attribute all my success to the coffee, get really sentimental about the EDM scene and tweet a lot.”
“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.”
“My relationship with my brothers... it's almost weird. We've never fought, we finish each other's sentences, but not in a creepy way. We talk about the things that we love and share music with each other.”
“I had a lot of self-doubt when I started. And I still do. But I had a lot of the wrong kind of self-doubt when I first started making music and first started to tour. I think I was a little bit deferential.”
“The warmest place I've ever been is my home here in Chapel Hill. It's an oasis of comfort and joy for me.”
“My most successful song was 'Language' and I think partly because it's a nice, dancey record, but I'll see people cry in the audience to that song, and that's so much more interesting to me than making someone just jump up and down.”
“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.”
“I wanted to have a grander vision, something that I felt like I was really fighting for and I wanted to have a real idea and be authentic.”
“I was trying to write new music, but there was nothing I was reacting against. It turned out 'Worlds' itself became something for me to to resist.”
“Star Wars Galaxies' didn't ever explain itself to you. It was horribly broken; it was glitchy in several significant ways. It was just this vast, expansive, beautiful universe with all these crazy idiosyncrasies.”
“When I'm making sentimental trancey fluffiness, I like to have some equally saccharine aromas filling the room.”
“I think Skrillex working with Justin Bieber - some immature people will have a huge problem with that; I'm just saying I don't care.”
“I still play the songs I declared noncanonical.”