Devendra Banhart Describes His Bizarro Rock Memorabilia (Jagger, Sinatra, Hagar?): Exclusive Audio

In the current issue of Rolling Stone, free-spirit folkie Devendra Banhart details his run-ins with Lindsay Lohan and first experiences with breasts (they were on a hermaphrodite). Click below to listen in to select parts of his interview with Christian Hoard, where he chats about his bizarre collection of rock memorabilia and collaborations with a Stroke.

Used goods from Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Whoopi Goldberg, Sammy Hagar -- Banhart is stockpiling them all:

Banhart became pals with actor Gael Garcia Bernal after discovering they had something unusual in common:

On what happened to his recording of the Strokes' Nick Valensi crooning the line "I've bribed the whore of babylon to lend me her waterbed":

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Song Stories

“Let My Love Open the Door”

Pete Townshend | 1980

A peppy, hopeful love song, "Let My Love Open the Door" became a U. S. Top Ten hit for Pete Townshend in 1980, anchored by the kind of repeating synthesizer figures that he'd used in some of the Who's recordings in the previous decade. Although Townshend brushed the song off as "just a ditty" in Rolling Stone shortly after its release, in 1996 he revealed it was about love of the holiest sort. "It's supposed to be about the power of God's love," he remarked. "That when you're in difficulty, whether it's major or minor, God's love is always there for you."

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