Washed Out Quotes

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.

I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like a song so much, I keep it for myself.

I realized there are so many steps from getting a deal to having a hit.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

When I'm not on the road I'm in the studio every day.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.

For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.

Usually, I write the music and am involved in the production.

The writing is everything of course but you can't be making records and not be willing to go out there and perform.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

I love writing songs for other people, and it's an honor when someone records your songs.

I write songs every day, but I don't necessarily get to record them.

Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do.