I think a "song" is, like, just play it on the guitar and sing it. You look out and see thousands of covers of "Animal" for example, so you think, "That was probably a pretty good song, because people feel like it's satisfying to just play it with one instrument accompanying it."

Andrew Wyatt

Categorized in : Thinking Animal Song

There are too many things to count that I like about London.

Andrew Wyatt

london

If I see a live show and it doesn't have the aspect of danger where it could potentially go wrong, it's not that interesting to me.

Andrew Wyatt

aspect danger interesting

We just did a bunch of songs, and there was a lot of enthusiasm for the songs that we made. We didn't feel like we had to do Miike Snow. We just did it because, I mean, I guess we felt like it would be a bit of a shame to leave it where we left it.

Andrew Wyatt

song snow mean

I'm not going to get into details, but every band has their moments when things are tough. Just logistically, tough on your body, stress levels, psychologically tough, relationships can be tough.

Andrew Wyatt

details band stress

"My Trigger" is the best combination of song and track. "Heart Is Full" is maybe the best song we've done as a song, and that's why we try to play it in different ways, too, because I think for a lot of people the track was a bit distracting from the song.

Andrew Wyatt

heart song thinking

There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on the guitar!

Andrew Wyatt

track guitar play

You want to achieve the effect, but not necessarily perform the same thing.

Andrew Wyatt

effects achieve want

I don't judge people who just hit "play," but I would judge myself if I did that. I wouldn't feel like I was earning my money, I'd feel like I was putting one over on people. I have to play the notes.

Andrew Wyatt

judging play people

Some people I see - people who do more or less have prerecorded tracks - their persona is such that the visual side of just them is way more important and multi-dimensional. Me, I'm boring to look at.

Andrew Wyatt

track important people

When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever.

Andrew Wyatt

best late growing-up tree

I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.

Andrew Wyatt

think you personality mistake

I used to produce this band, Dragons of Zynth. There's something about their live shows, which, to me, is ultimate. I mean, you feel like somebody could get hurt when you go see them live.

Andrew Wyatt

feel me you hurt

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'

Andrew Wyatt

street village music father

I guess, like, the whole thing with music is - you're a little bit in control but not fully in control. Which is kind of the fun of it.

Andrew Wyatt

control you music fun

I've been studying on my own. I'm not really trained. I went to school for about a year and a half. I never really studied music, but, I mean, I did. I studied for two years, maybe.

Andrew Wyatt

never my-own music school

I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.

Andrew Wyatt

new you music school

It's even exhausting for me to think about remixes because there were so many Miike Snow remixes.

Andrew Wyatt

about think me snow

There are major advantages to remaining out of the radio for a long time before we have something that crosses into the mainstream properly.

Andrew Wyatt

long-time radio time long

A couple hundred grand, a couple hundred thousand.

Andrew Wyatt

He said, ‘What are you talking about?’ and the officer said, ‘You’re going home,' all the inmates were yelling, ‘Get out of here!'.

Andrew Wyatt