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" 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. "

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" When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang. "

" I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I won't surface until dinnertime. I'm very domesticated in that way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things. "

" 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. "

" The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now. "

" I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential. "

" 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. "

" 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'm not a very technical musician at all. "

" For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people. "

" 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. "

" I was gonna work in a university, but no one was hiring. "

" I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally. "

" I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past. "

" 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. "

" Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds. "

" Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road. "

" In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life. "

" If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more. "

" 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 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. "

" I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "