Kemp Muhl
When Sean came to meet my parents, the first thing my dad did when he picked him up at the airport was to take him right to a shooting range. My dad was like, 'I want to see how he shoots.'
We love the juxtaposition of something saccharine with something morbid.
We are obsessive NPR listeners.
If you're going to have a rock band, you've got to do it while you're young.
When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies.
I'm not a stickler for appropriateness.
I come from a Catholic Republican military family in Georgia - the antithesis of Sean's hippie-artist-peacenik background.
My father is a retired army colonel, and my family is into hunting.
We have entered an age where religious ideologies and nuclear technology coexist. This alone is a terrifying concept, plus the fact that humanity is like Icarus, flirting with how close we can get to the sun of technology before our wax wings melt.
It's definitely a hard pill to swallow; the son of John Lennon and a model having a band together is a cliche. But I think that once people get past that I think there's been a really warm reception to our music.
There's room for many definitions of masculinity in the modern era.
Give me PVC, not P.C.
We're so bored of plastic, prime-time predictability.
Very few empowered couples work together as peers.
Sean was a lot shyer lyrically in his solo career. I think because his father was such a great lyricist it was hard to tackle that.
Everyone has this idea of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin: the woman being pretty and prancing around while the guy writes all the songs.
My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters.
I think every man should have a pair of boots. They're really sexy. Leather boots, cowboy boots, it depends. I really like the ones from the Seventies with the heels.
Some of the greatest guitarists, historically, have had no chops, they've just had great taste. I know a lot of musical school kids who just have no taste.
When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops.
I grew up with a lot of classical music around.
When I became a model I was traveling a lot.
I was lonely as a young teenager and my only companion was an acoustic guitar. I would bring it with me on modeling trips.
Sean and I are fighting so many cliches, it's funny. But ultimately we just want to play people the songs we wrote while we were in our pajamas, in love.
Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar my father gave me.
I grew up listening to a lot of Simon & Garfunkel and Peter, Paul and Mary. I know that sounds dorky, but I always responded strongly to that kind of lyric-driven folk music.
We love creating these fantastical worlds, and that really comes from things like 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'I Am The Walrus.'
We're pretty much Luddites when it comes to demos; we don't do anything too elaborate or high-tech.
I think it's now really feminine, jaunty-cool to carry a little clutch like you would a football.
I started off liking uptight music and then discovered Pink Floyd and Hendrix.
I've definitely evolved into a monster.
I want to be riding with the Four Horsemen!
I started writing songs with my best friend Eden Rice when were in our early teens. We performed together at local coffee shops in suburban Atlanta as Kemp and Eden, until fate intervened and we were separated.
Because I'm a little ADD, I would like to incorporate even more facets to my career eventually, such as writing and directing films.
We think the juxtaposition between banjo solos and songs about the future are really funny.
The idea of old world instruments mixed with sci-fi, futuristic lyrics, playing baroque guitar on a song about a robot boy and a banjo solo on a song about white noise - that's our sense of humor.
We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern.
Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.Collection: Skills
The trend that should definitely die is following trends.Collection: Trends
Glitter is cool because that's like glam rock, but rhinestones need to die out.Collection: Rocks
I don't like it when people ask me what my favourite Beatles song is. I always get that. First of all, I don't like having to pick a favourite thing anyway. You can't pick a favourite Beatles song! What about "Strawberry Fields"? What about "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"? What about "Tomorrow Never Knows"? Come on. That question is small minded to think you could even have a favourite Beatles song.Collection: Song
I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something?Collection: People
I do think vajazzles need to stop. The whole thing of glitter-ising your cell phone and your purse and your body needs to stop.Collection: Thinking
When I was young I had this blonde haircut that was shaved on one side with a rat tail and tram lines in it, but I don't really regret that. It was really elaborate but I was 12 and it looked cool. It was like what people in Iceland do.Collection: Regret
You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.Collection: Rocks
My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky.Collection: Guilty
I've been waiting for techno to die. I was in Germany once and this guy was telling me that techno was dead, and then he proceeded to play me techno for hours.Collection: Play
I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain situations.Collection: Fashion
It takes a real man to wear silk! There aren't a lot of manly men in rock and roll because it's all about cross-dressing to a degree. You have to be kind of sensitive to be in rock and roll.Collection: Real
I don't think men should think too much about their hair. They shouldn't think. They should just open bottles for women, hammer nails into wall and chop wood.Collection: Wall