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" I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things. "

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Because

You

" I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself. "

" I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story. "

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

" There are things I can accomplish in the studio via manipulation on the computer or some kind of effect that are nearly impossible to do live. On the flip side, there are some things that happen live that can't be pulled off in the studio. "

" I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer. "

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

" I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything. "

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Delay

Lot

" My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible. "

" Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something. "

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Ideas

Nostalgia

" The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy. "

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Run

Sound

" I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse. "

Washed Out

Inspiration

Always

" 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. "

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

Washed Out

Music

Depression

" I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything. "

" I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things. "

" I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music. "

" My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet. "

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Hip-Hop

People

" I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building. "

" Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward. "

" 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. "

" I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve. "

" When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My general taste is towards the melancholy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "