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 grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

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

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.