My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced,… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator. — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation. — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It was kind… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
The Washed Out thing happened really quickly, and I wasn't really actively promoting the songs. I didn't think of them as any more than… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse. — Washed Out Copy Share Image
