Words matter. These are the best Chet Faker Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
On my Instagram, lots of people tag me in photos of just dudes with beards, and they’re like, ‘Oh my God, I met Chet Faker’ and I’m like, ‘That doesn’t even look like me.’
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.
What I like about Americans is if it’s good music, that’s the only thing that matters.
I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.
I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games… and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.
I’d wear all APC if I could afford it and wasn’t embarrassing to go head-to-toe in one brand.
All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn’t want to be backstage, warming up.
You can’t rush an art form.
The day you stop clapping at a gig is the day your soul dies.
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.
Hype is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing if you aren’t prepared to back it up.
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!
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.
Chet Faker’s a reference to the late Chet Baker. I’m a big fan of his vocal style; it’s quite fragile and soft, and that was a style I wanted to take on.
Our generation’s grown up with the Internet, so it’s an extension of our social lives; it’s an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.
I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.
I don’t start my show at 200%. I like to go in slow, warm up the crowd, and bring them along with me. To hear everyone singing along is so great.
I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.
I like a lot of independent brands – Melbourne’s Kloke, Handsom and Neuw Denim, and Bassike in Sydney. It’s easier to be proud of what you’re wearing if you’ve met the people behind the brand and there’s more of a personal story.
Sometimes I have to deal with trolls, and I just block them. But most of the time, Twitter’s heaps of fun, actually.
Learning to appreciate those things that aren’t related to success has proved the biggest lesson.
It was definitely hard when I first started, and by no means do I consider my live show to be where I want it to be; it will develop step by step for the rest of my life.
I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.
I’m a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.
Music to me is about being honest, and it’s what I’ve always pictured music as. I don’t see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.
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.
I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I’m sure there’s an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I’m most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.
I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.
I remember a concert for a visiting girls school, and that was the first time I ever sang – it was always about girls – that was the main thing. But somewhere along the line, it became a cathartic thing.
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
