Ezra Koenig

It's so easy for anyone to deal with their own guilt of being a middle-class white music fan by pointing to other people who they perceive to be richer than them, whiter than them.

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.