Washed Out Quotes

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.

What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.