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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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Inspiration

Always

" I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any. "

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Week

Mexican

" I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately. "

" 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. "

" I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different. "

" It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing. "

" In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life. "

" 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. "

" Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator. "

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

" When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang. "

" I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I won't surface until dinnertime. I'm very domesticated in that way. "

" The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler. "

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Software

Good

" For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure. "

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

Washed Out

Music

Depression

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope. "

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

" I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything. "

" I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold. "

" Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art. "

" It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that. "

" The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things. "

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

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Ideas

Nostalgia

" I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally. "

" 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 comes out in the songs that I'm writing. "

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Writing

Time

" 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 great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear. "

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

" I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions. "