96 Quotes by Washed Out

I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

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.

Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.

I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.

I love listening to pop radio.

My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.

Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.

I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.

I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.