Rostam Batmanglij Quotes & Sayings

I think summer, at least as I've experienced it, can be joyous but it can also be tough emotionally. Physically, it can be hot to the point of being unbearable and I think you want to capture that frustration, but also the release. — Rostam Batmanglij

I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song. — Rostam Batmanglij

I love working with Angel Deradoorian, she's a joy to work with. She's fab at singing and she has a real ... she has an understanding that's both intellectual and emotional about singing, that I think that very few people have. — Rostam Batmanglij

Now that that album's done [TModern Vampires of the City], I have time to revisit things that I was working on earlier, previous to it. I actually found it very helpful to be working on some music on my own. — Rostam Batmanglij

'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot. — Rostam Batmanglij

We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'. — Rostam Batmanglij

I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something special about 'Young Lion'. It's pretty different from any song that we've had before because the vocals are kind of between two different very simple instrumental piano melodies and it's almost like something that we call a vignette, it's sort of like a miniature. — Rostam Batmanglij

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything ... so who knows what the future will hold? — Rostam Batmanglij

One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality - and so we were sort of trying to express that in our press photos. And it's one of the themes of the album [Modern Vampires of the City] as well. — Rostam Batmanglij