I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that’s the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there’s enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That’s beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things. Washed Out Read Quote
I lived in a neighborhood where there weren’t many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world. Washed Out Read Quote
I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was in the thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands. But there’s no doubt that the Internet and that kind of sharing has been a huge benefit for the band. Washed Out Read Quote
Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That’s the real challenge, I think. Washed Out Read Quote
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 my personal life out there, it ruins it. Washed Out Read Quote
I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything. Washed Out Read Quote
The entire making of ‘Within and Without’ was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn’t have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like. Washed Out Read Quote
