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" I don't think it's an exciting thing to move back in with your parents. "

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" I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was in the thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands. But there's no doubt that the Internet and that kind of sharing has been a huge benefit for the band. "

" Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think. "

" The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set, and it wasn't quite rock enough for a rock band. But I guess it's what makes us unique - drawing from a lot of different influences. "

" I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse. "

" I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work. "

" I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any. "

" I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world. "

" When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs. "

" Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it. "

" For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure. "

" I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers. "

" Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story - my favorite records have a narrative feel. "

" I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It was kind of too strict. So when I was probably 11 or 12, I started playing guitar and just kind of taught myself. "

" My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it. "

" The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective. "

" I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that. "

" There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there. "

" I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that. "

" I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about. "

" I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five. "

" You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope. "

" I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different. "

" I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it. "

" My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do. "

" Where I grew up in the middle of Georgia, hip-hop is king, and on Friday and Saturday nights, local DJs do mixes. It's a great mix of local stuff and then some of the bigger hits and remixes of the hits, and it just has this nice flow with a dirty-South sound to everything. "

" It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that. "

" I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions. "

" I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation. "

" I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that. "

" When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture. "