Zach Condon Quotes

You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but so does time on. At least the pressure wasn't coming from outside.

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.

After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.

I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

I felt like I needed to get a few side projects out of my system before I settled in to do the new record. Usually what's asked of you, everything's a year cycle. When you get caught up in that cycle, it can be kind of brutal, actually. It was good I got to take a year off, with no pressure coming from anywhere.

I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.

I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.

There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.

I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating.

I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.

I think it's become much harder because I'm more afraid of every step I take. I'm more aware of its ramifications, I'm more aware of the less creative aspects of music - like the business-side of things for example.

I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.

It's just not an image I had ever put out about myself - the bedroom synth guy. The whole thing seemed ridiculous.

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.