This is from a year plus ago, and is an “interview” with Andrew WK from the Onion A.V. Club. It’s not so much an interview as him ranting, but I think its seriously some of the best shit I have ever heard any musician say ever.

About how there’s no such thing as a wrong or right reason to enjoy music:

That’s one of the most important things here: that nobody is turned away and nobody is left out and nobody is judged based on how they look or what they like or what they don’t like or even why they like it. There’s no wrong reason to like my music. There’s no wrong reason to like anything. This music is freedom. It allows anyone else the freedom to do whatever they want, and it accepts that unconditionally. And it continues to just want to make you happy. All you need to know is, “Do I feel this in my stomach? Is this running through my veins? Does this go up my spine? Does this blow my mind to pieces? Does this affect me?” That is real. That is physical evidence, and you don’t need to even question it, or even understand. That’s why I would never question why someone liked this or why someone’s smiling or why someone is happy. It could be for one of a million reasons, some that people think I would think are bad or against me. Life’s just way too short for me to qualify and quantify how this can make someone feel. Music, above all, is huge and magnificent and so much bigger than me or any one person. Someone says, “What if someone thinks you’re just some kind of stupid joke?” And I say, “I don’t care. I want to make them happy. If that makes them happy, if that’s what puts a smile on their face, so be it.”

About when you really love something:

You know when you really like something, and you know that that thing you really love loves itself and loves you? It’s a total bummer when you love something and go up to the person who’s working on it, and you say, “God! This is so great! I love this so much!” And they’re like, “Eh. Thanks, but it’s no big deal.” When someone comes up and tells me that they love the music, I yell, “Me, too!” And we just hug. It’s that feeling that the people playing those songs are loving them just as much as you are while you’re dancing, and that you could be up on that stage and playing those songs just as well. That is the point. The uncharted territory is that there is no line to be crossed. You don’t have to hold back. This is our time.