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Jay Watson (born 27 May 1990) is an Australian multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the psychedelic rock bands Tame Impala and Pond. Watson records solo material under the name GUM and has released four albums under this name.

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I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like.

Know, Like, Look, Looks, My Own, Needs

I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.

Bits, Gunner, Gunners, Keyboard, Keyboards, Qwerty

Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not.

Quality, Management, Management Systems, Free, Proliferate, Systems

I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.

Head, Phrases, Song, Tom, Waiting, Writing

I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.

I Can, Shittiest, Takes, Thing, Write, Writing

It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.

Drummer, Effects, Playing, Real, Trying, Vocal

I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up with a lot of lyrics by writing down loads and loads of random sentences and streams, and I find meaning in that music, even though he'd probably say it's absolute gibberish.

Big, Down, Fans, Records, Say, Writing

Whenever I think I know something is a classic, or an amazing song, I realise it's still so subjective, because you and your friends could be talking about something, say, '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' - an amazing classic song - or someone would be like, "'Hey Jude' is an amazing song!", and I'd be like, "I don't really like it. "

Jude, Song, Subjective, Talking, Think, Thinking

Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.

Cheesy, Corny, Stifling, Music

I either write songs on guitar, or. . . I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

Guitar, Laptop, Song, Songs, Write, Writing