Washed Out Quotes

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

For 'Drive,' we needed the songs to dictate emotions and really bring you into the mind of The Driver; he's a unique and complicated guy, so the music itself had to be unique and complicated.

I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the piece of music, there's a story there and a connection to the characters and the plots and all of that.

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

The two have to go hand in hand - the atmosphere and the music. I actually get rather worried if I can't see the music first. There always needs to be a mood, a feeling, a story, even if it is abstract. There's got to be a narrative to guide things before they're even created.

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

What I'm trying to do is tell good stories through music. I think some of the best songs, the best country songs, are stories.

When I make music and I'm talking on records, it's like I'm painting a picture. In my mind, I'm seeing a film.

I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm proud of.

I find that albums generally tell a story. Because it's music, it doesn't have to be in chronological order.

When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.

My task is to tell a story with the music. I always like to have themes in terms of characters or plots, and things that can tell a story always interest me the most.

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

I love singing for films because there is a story to the song; it takes you down a new road.

I've waited for the day my debut album is released my entire life, so naturally I've designed it to be listened to from start to finish - so every song flows into each other in a way that tells a sonic story.

What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.

Folk music is very honest, it's very humble, it's very organic, and the voice is exactly that. And so I'm very excited to put the two together.

Each song takes a different path through a different headspace.

Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.