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" I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself. "

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

" 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 of too strict. So when I was probably 11 or 12, I started playing guitar and just kind of taught myself. "

" The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective. "

" Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs. "

" I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation. "

" The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it. "

" Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think. "

" When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture. "

" One of the great things about music is how it can take you places. "

" A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive. "

" I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential. "

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" I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately. "

" I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five. "